Management Center: Working with the Management Center utilities view

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Show MeUse the utilities view to locate objects you require to complete a task, without navigating away from the current view. From the Find, Browse, or Clipboard tabs, drag objects into the Management Center main work area.

About this taskTo work with the Management Center utilities view:

Open a Management Center tool.
Open the utilities view by clicking
.

From the utilities view, you can work with each tab:

Option Description

Find Click this tab to search for objects:

From the search filter, a select the type of object you want to find.
Within the find area, type a search string and click
. The system performs a search based on your search criteria.
For details about the Management Center search functionality, see Searching within the Management Center.
The search results display within the Find tab. You can drag or copy objects from this list to the Management Center main work area.
Browse Click this tab to browse the WebSphere Commerce system for objects. You can expand and collapse the nodes to see the objects under each node. Select a node to display its details in the lower frame within the Browse tab.

If you have many entries under one node, there may be too many to list. You will see arrows to indicate there are more entries than displayed; click the arrows to move up and down the list. You can drag objects from the lower frame to the Management Center main work area.
Clipboard Reuse objects that you have copied into the Clipboard tab:

Drag or paste copied items to the clipboard. For example, from the list view within the Management Center main work area, you can drag list items to the clipboard. Likewise, from the explorer view, copy and paste items to the clipboard.
Drag or copy items out of the clipboard and into the to the Management Center main work area.
To remove all the objects from within the clipboard, click Clear.
All objects copied to the clipboard are available for reuse within the same Management Center session for each tool within the Management Center.

Option	Description
Find	Click this tab to search for objects: From the search filter, a select the type of object you want to find. Within the find area, type a search string and click . The system performs a search based on your search criteria. For details about the Management Center search functionality, see Searching within the Management Center. The search results display within the Find tab. You can drag or copy objects from this list to the Management Center main work area.
Browse	Click this tab to browse the WebSphere Commerce system for objects. You can expand and collapse the nodes to see the objects under each node. Select a node to display its details in the lower frame within the Browse tab. If you have many entries under one node, there may be too many to list. You will see arrows to indicate there are more entries than displayed; click the arrows to move up and down the list. You can drag objects from the lower frame to the Management Center main work area.
Clipboard	Reuse objects that you have copied into the Clipboard tab: Drag or paste copied items to the clipboard. For example, from the list view within the Management Center main work area, you can drag list items to the clipboard. Likewise, from the explorer view, copy and paste items to the clipboard. Drag or copy items out of the clipboard and into the to the Management Center main work area. To remove all the objects from within the clipboard, click Clear. All objects copied to the clipboard are available for reuse within the same Management Center session for each tool within the Management Center.