PLATFORM - Administration (Web) > Web Administration Desktop > Administration Desktop Description
Administration Desktop Description
To access the Administration desktop, see Connecting to the Administration Desktop.
1, Toolbar, 2: Administration tab, 3: Navigation panes, 4: Edit area
The Administration desktop includes:
• a toolbar.
*See Toolbar.
• an Administration tab that contains panes and trees to select the objects to manage.
• an edit area to manage objects.
Toolbar 
The toolbar displays the name of the user connected as well as the profile with which the user is connected.
From the Administration desktop toolbar, you can:
• switch to another profile
• access your account (My account) to:
• modify your password
• modify your options
*For information on options available at user level, see Option Groups.
• manage your alerts
• obtain information on your licenses
• reinitialize your personal parameters
• access the documentation
• modify the interface data language
*To manage languages, see Managing Languages in Web Applications.
• access online documentation
• update your desktop
• disconnect from the Administration desktop .
Navigation panes and trees 
In the Administration desktop, the Administration tab contains the following panes:
• the User Management pane to manage users:
• the persons
*The Persons by reading access area sub-folder is available if reading access management is activated.
*The Person groups by reading access area sub-folder is available if management of reading access is activated.
• the profiles
• the authentication
• the Repository Management pane to
• manage the workspaces, the locks, the repository and the snapshots
• access the repository health reports
• the Permissions pane to manage object UI access and general UI access
• the Tools pane to:
• import or export command files or data in XMG, MGL or MGR formats
• import or export objects with the Excel import/export wizard
• import Visio diagrams
• view the scheduling (Triggers)
• Currency pane to manage exchange rates.
*See the "Functional Administration" chapter for the HOPEX solutions concerned.
Edit area 
When you select an element in the left part (navigation panes and trees), the management page of this element appears in the edit area.
You can:
• notify connected users by e-mail (Notify connected users)
• manage the environment options (Environment Options)