About the MWS Admin View

The MWS Admin view of Software AG Designer enables you to connect to multiple instances of My webMethods Server as a system administrator. To work with a My webMethods Server instance in the MWS Admin view, the server instance must be running. The following table lists the basic operations that you can perform on server resources after adding a server to the view:

Action	Description
Browse	Opens My webMethods Server in an Eclipse browser window and enables you to browse server resources.
Refresh	Refreshes the contents of the view.
Rename	Enables you to modify the name of the server instance in the view.
Reconnect	Attempts to reconnect to the server instance. You can use this command when the Connect at Startup property is set to false.
Delete	Removes the server instance from the view.
Extract Asset into Project	Extracts My webMethods Server runtime assets into a content or skin project. For more information about extracting My webMethods Server assets, see About Runtime Asset Extraction.

Action	Instructions
Delete a portlet or a page	Right-click the portlet and click Delete.
Move a portlet	Drag the portlet to another position within the same page, to a different page, or to a different server.
Copy a portlet	Right-click the portlet and click Edit > Copy. Then right-click another page and click Edit > Paste. You can copy resources from one server to another.
Create server resources	Right-click the node where you want to add a resource, such as folders, links, and portlets, and click New. In the tree view, select the resource that you want to create, type a display name for the resource, and click Finish.
Modify properties of a server resource	Select the server resource, such as a portlet or page. Then go to the Properties view and make changes as needed. For example, you can create or modify aliases for server resources, such as pages or portlets.
Publish documents to the server	Drag the document from the Navigator view to the MWS Admin view. You can also drag documents from the MWS Admin view to the Navigator view.