COMSOL 6.3 - The Model Manager Workspace Windows

When you open the Model Manager workspace, you will see two windows in the COMSOL Desktop by default:

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The Model Manager Window — used primarily to search for models and data files.

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The Settings Window — used to show settings for various database objects, as well as update and save them in the database. See also Overview of a Model Manager Database.

You can always restore the COMSOL Desktop to this layout by clicking the button (

) in the section of The Home Toolbar. From the menu (

) in the same section, you can open the following optional windows in the workspace:

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The window — used to browse materials in your configured material libraries.

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The , , and windows — used to find MPH-files in your configured libraries for applications, geometry parts, and add-ins, respectively.

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The window — used to run Java® code interactively.

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The window — used to have a conversation with a chatbot.

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The window — used, for example, to inspect local variables in the window.

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The window — used to compare model versions saved in the database. See also Comparing Models Saved in Databases.

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The Databases Window — used to browse, organize, and administer your configured databases via The Databases Tree.

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The Commits Window — used to view the commit history of a branch, optionally filtered to only include commits that involve a particular item.

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The Versions Window — used to view the version history of an item with respect to a branch.

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The Maintenance Window — used to perform maintenance operations for item versions.

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The References Window — used to view relations between model and file versions. See also The Auxiliary Data Window for Database Input and Output.

The , , , , , and windows play a central role in the Model Manager workspace and for its toolbars — whichever has focus determines the target for the buttons in The Home Toolbar and The Database Toolbar. You may, for example, have selected one model in the window and another model in the window. The window that has focus determines which model is opened if you click the button (

) in the section of the toolbar. You can identify the window currently in focus by its title having a brighter color than the other windows.

The selection in the window, the window, and the window also determines what is shown in the , , and windows, again depending on which one of these three former windows has focus. If you select a model in the window when searching in a branch, for example, you will see commits involving that model in the window, a version history for the model in the window, and all item versions that the model reference in the window. Moreover, the selection in any of these six windows determines what is shown in the window.


	You can turn off the automatic selection linking in the Commits, Versions, References, and Settings windows by clicking the Link with Selection button () in their respective toolbars. Click once more to turn on the linking.

The selection in the window determines the searched location in the window, as well as the selected branch in the and windows. If you select a branch tree node in The Databases Tree, for example, the window will automatically switch to search with respect to that branch. Similarly, if you change the current location via The Select Location Dialog in the window, the window, or the window, the corresponding tree node is automatically selected in The Databases Tree and the current locations in the other windows are updated accordingly.