The Desktop provides a convenient user interface, displaying configurations, tools, and inspectors, with different options available for the different views.

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• To the left you have the Standard Desktop Buttons, which allows you to expand lists of configurations, tools, and other options, see the section Standard Desktop Buttons and Options below for more information. 
• The main view displays the selected tools and opened configurations in a tabbed arrangement.

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The Browser displays a list of all configurations in and configurations and makes it possible to easily navigate between them.

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The Browser supports a set of operations that can be performed on the configurations by using the right-click menu. For each configuration, you can also open a Properties dialog where permissions can be Each configuration has Properties where permissions are set and where you can view history, references, and other basic information. Refer to Properties in Configuration Browser for more information.

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Subfolders

If you want It is possible to arrange your configurations in a structure with subfolders.

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If you want to use another character for defining to define subfolders than underscore, you can use the property mz.subfolder.separator to define another separator, see . See Platform Properties for more information.

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In this section, the different options available in the right-click menu of the Browser View are described. Note that some of the options have keyboard shortcuts , they will be - these are listed in grey color according to the used operating system. 

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Option	Description
Column View	Enables the users you to toggle switch between the  Compact or the  Details viewing modemodes. When the Details mode is selected, additional information will be is shown about each item: the granted permissions, Owner, Modified By, and the Modification Date.
Refresh	Select this option to refresh the selected folder, subfolder, or configuration.
Expand	Select this option to refresh expand the selected folder , subfolder, or configurationor subfolder to display all the subfolders and configurations that it contains.
Collapse	Select this option to expand collapse the selected folder or subfolder to not display all the subfolders and or configurations that it contains.
New Configuration	Select this option to create a new profile based on the menu list.
New Folder...	Select this option to create a new folder.
Open Configuration(s)...	Available when at least one configuration is selected. Select this option to open the selected configuration(s).
Export Configuration(s)	Available when at least one configuration is selected. Select this option to export the selected configurations. The System Exporter dialog opens with the configurations configuration(s) pre-selected. Note title Note! When exporting from the Configuration Navigator, configuration dependencies are not automatically selected. This can be achieved by selecting the "Select Dependencies" check box checkbox in the System Exporter dialog. For further information see System Exporter.
Download...	Downloads the selected configuration.
Cut	Select this option to put one or more configurations on the clipboard to move the configuration to another location. Select the menu option Paste in the folder where the configurations should be stored. This option is not applicable if the configuration is locked. For further information see Locks in Administration and Management in Legacy Desktop.
Copy	Select this option to put one or more configurations on the clipboard to copy the configurations to another location. Select the menu option Paste in the folder where the copied configurations should be stored.
Paste	Select this option to store configurations that have been cut or copied to the clipboard into a in the selected folder.
Delete...	Select this option to delete the selected configuration(s). If the configuration is referenced by another configuration, a warning message will be is displayed, informing you that you cannot remove the configuration. For further information see The References Tab in 6.2 Configuration Browser. You can force the deletion of a folder and all the configurations that it contains. A message is displayed asking if you are sure that you want to continue, in order to avoid deletion by mistake. Note that there is no restore option for this function. All the configurations are permanently removed.
Rename...	Select this option to change the name of the selected configuration. Take particular care when renaming a configuration. If, for example, an APL script is renamed, workflows that are using this script will become invalid. This is important to know when you rename folders that contain many ultra format configurations or APL configurations. Renaming a folder with ultra formats or APL configurations will make all referring configurations invalid.
Encrypt...	Select this option to encrypt the selected configurations.
Decrypt...	Select this option to decrypt the selected configurations.
Validate...	Select this option to validate the configuration. A validation message will be is shown to the user.
Show Properties	Select this option to launch the Properties dialog for the selected configuration. For further information, see the Properties section below, Properties.
Documentation	Select this option to launch the Documentation dialog for the selected configuration. For further information, see the Documentation section below, Documentation.

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To open the Properties dialog, right-click a configuration and then select Show Properties.

The Properties dialog box

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The References tab contains information about which other configurations that the current configuration is referring refers to, and which other configurations that the current configuration is referenced by:

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The References tab contains two sub-tabs: Used By, which displays all the configurations that use the current configuration, and Uses, which displays all the configurations that the current configuration uses.

If you want to To edit any of the configurations, you can double-click the configuration to open it for editing.

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If you want to clear the Configuration history for the Configuration, click the Clear Configuration History button. The version number is not affected by this.

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To open the Documentation dialog, right-click on a configuration and then select Documentation.

The Documentation dialog

In this dialog, you can provide information on the selected configuration, for example, a description and the purpose of the configuration. You can use markdown syntax if preferred. The text entered is then included in the automated documentation that you can generate using the Documentation Generator tool. When you have completed the text you want to include, click OK to save. For further information on the Documentation Generator tool, see Documentation Generator.

Global Search

A field for Click the Search button to be able to make free text searches is available when the Search button is pressed. Two options will be are shown at the top of the list where the individual entries are displayed. 

You can disable the search functionality by setting the cell property mz.use.search to false. This will decrease decreases the startup time of the Platform by approximately 10%.

Each entry in the search results result contains a path to the configuration and a fragment of its settings or code. Double-clicking on click an entry opens to open the corresponding configuration. 

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To search for a phrase you must use quotation marks e g .g. "int myVar". 

By default, queries will return all configurations that contain any of the search terms.  You You can use boolean operators, i e .e. + or -, to further refine the search results. For instance, the query +tcp_ip +3210 will only return returns configurations that contain both both tcp_ip and 3210.

The table below describes symbols that you can use to perform complex queries.