Legacy Desktop User Interface
The Desktop provides a convenient user interface, displaying configurations, tools, and inspectors, with different options available for the different views.
Desktop window
The Desktop window is organized into two main sections:
To the left you have the Standard Desktop Buttons, which allows you to expand lists of configurations, tools, and other options, see Standard Desktop Buttons and Options below for more information.
The main view displays the selected tools and opened configurations in a tabbed arrangement.
The Desktop user interface includes the following standard features:
Feature | Description |
|---|---|
Desktop Buttons | Browser - Click this button to open the Browser. Here you can see all available configurations and their properties. Configuration - Click this button to open a list of available configuration types to create a new configuration. Inspection - Click this button to open a list of available inspectors, see Inspection for more information. Tools - Click this button to open a list of available tools, see Tools & Monitoring for more information. Open Tabs - Click this button to open a list of all open tabs, which may be useful if you have many tabs open. Change Password - Click this button to open the Change Password dialog where you can change your user password. Documentation - Click this button to open the user documentation. Status - Click this button to open a list of status messages along with version information. Exit - Click this button to exit the Legacy Desktop. |
Tab Right-Click Menu | There are different closing options available when right-clicking a tab. The tab right-click menu Close - Select this option to close the selected tab. Close Other - Select this option to close all other tabs in the Desktop window. Close All - Select this option to close all tabs in the Desktop window. |
Tab Button Panel | The button panel is visible at the top of a tab. It is dynamic and changes according to the type of Configuration, Inspector, or Tool that is opened in the currently displayed tab. For a description of the specific buttons, refer to Build View, Inspection, and Tools & Monitoring. The following figure shows the button panel visible for a workflow configuration. The tab button panel for a workflow configuration |
Tabs
Configurations and tools are opened in separate tabs, in the right part of the Desktop window. However, dialogs that are opened from right-click menu options, e.g. the MIM Browser or UDR Browser, are opened in a dialog box and not in another tab.
Click the Open Tabs button to display a list with all the currently opened tabs.
Open Tabs List dialog
When exiting the Desktop, all tabs are closed, and they are not restored the next time you log in unless you have set the property mz.gui.restart.tabs to true. See Desktop Properties for more information.
To reorder the tabs, click a tab and drag it to a different position along the top of the window.
To move a tab to a separate Desktop window, click and drag it outside the current window. This can be useful when running and analyzing several workflows in the Workflow Monitor, to be able to view the monitors side by side. If there is only one tab open in the Desktop and the tab is moved to a separate window, the original Desktop window will be closed. A Tool, Inspector, or Configuration can only be open in one tab at a time.
It is possible to move tabs between several Desktop windows.
The Browser displays a list of all configurations and makes it possible to easily navigate between them.
In the Browser you also filter what configurations are shown, by selecting entries of a specific type. You also have the option to display configurations with folders and subfolders.
The Browser supports a set of operations that can be performed on the configurations by using the right-click menu. 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.
Button | Description |
|---|---|
| To open the Browser, click the Browser button in the upper left part of the interface. |
The Browser View
In the Browser there are two pre-existing folders:
Default - This folder is where all configurations are stored if no other folder is specified.
SystemTask - This folder contains workflows for performing different background routines. For further information, refer to System Task Workflows in Workflow Types.
Note!
The Default and SystemTask folders cannot be renamed or deleted.
Subfolders
It is possible to arrange your configurations in a structure with subfolders.
Subfolder structure
To enable this functionality you need to set the property platform mz.subfolder.enabled to true, and restart the Platform and any Legacy Desktop clients.
When enabled, you can create a subfolder by using an underscore in the folder name when creating a new folder.
Creating a subfolder
If you want to use another character to define subfolders than underscore, you can use the property mz.subfolder.separator to define another separator. See Platform Properties for more information.
Note!
Subfolders are only available in Legacy Desktop.
Right-Click Menu
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 - these are listed in grey color according to the used operating system.