Wx3270/Help/Profiles

This window allows profiles and connections to be created, edited and deleted.

This page is under construction.

Top button bar
The top button bar contains several buttons.
 * 🗲 New Connection
 * Creates a new connection in the current profile.


 * 🗲 Disconnect
 * Disconnects the current connection.


 * ↶ (Undo)
 * Reverses the most recent operation. Operations include both profiles and connection operations and changes to settings.


 * ↷ (Redo)
 * Reinstates the most recently reversed operation. Operations include both profiles and connection operations and changes to settings.

The tree
The main part of the window is a tree. The levels in the tree are:
 * [[File:wx3270-folder-icon.png]] Folder
 * A folder containing profiles.


 * [[File:wx3270-profile-icon.png]] Profile
 * A file containing settings and host connection definitions.


 * [[File:wx3270-connection-icon.png]] Connection
 * The description of a connection to make to a host. This includes connection-specific settings. Other settings are inherited from the profile that the connection is contained in.

Drag and drop
Drag and drop is used for several operations:
 * To copy a profile from one folder to another.
 * To copy a connection from one profile to another.
 * To change the order of connections within a profile.
 * To merge settings from one profile into another.

To drag and drop, left-click on the object to be dragged and hold down the mouse button. Then drag the object onto the other object to drag it onto.

The special Default Values entry
At the bottom of the tree, there is a special profile labeled . This profile is used with drag and drop in two ways:
 * When dragged onto a folder, it causes a new profile to be created.
 * When dragged onto an existing profile, it allows selected parts of that profile to be replaced with default values, with a merge operation.