Setting up workspaces

Use the workbench to create workspaces for QMF for WorkstationQMF users.

As the administrator you can choose to have your QMF users work with repository objects from a workspace, or directly from the repository. Every repository that you create has one default workspace that is created automatically. Initially, all users have access to the default workspace.

The first step to setting up a workspace is to specify the contents of the workspace.

Advantages of using workspaces

There are advantages to having your users access repository objects from a workspace. If you have chosen the Internal or LDAP security option for the repository, you can create one or more workspaces and assign specific users and groups varying levels of access to the entire workspace or to specific objects within the workspace. If you have chosen no additional security for the repository, then one or more workspaces can help organize repository objects.

If you choose not to use workspaces and have your QMF users access repository objects directly from the repository, you should recommend they alter the views that are opened by default with the User perspective. Instead of opening the Workspaces view by default, change the perspective so that the Repository Explorer view opens by default.