Documentation forMobile Admin
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Manage global folders with Mobile Admin

Manage global folders (Mobile Admin professional only)

The Global Folders page displays when you select Global Folder in the Configuration interface.

Global Folders allow you to organize servers. You can keep specific servers together to sort large numbers of servers into meaningful groups. Global Folders are accessible to any user who has permissions to any server in the folder.

All procedures in this section assume that you have selected Global Folders on the Configuration Interface.

Create a global folder

  1. In the Actions menu, click Add Folder.
  2. In the Name field, enter a global folder name.
  3. Click Add.

Remove a global folder

Servers within a global folder are not removed from Mobile Admin when the folder is removed.

  1. Select the folder you wish to remove.
  2. Click Remove.

Add servers to a global folder

  1. Select the global folder you want to add to a server.
  2. Click Add Servers.
  3. Select the servers you want to add.
  4. Click Add.

Create a global folder within a global folder

  1. Select the global folder in which you want to create a new global folder, and click Add Folder.
  2. In the Name field, enter a name for the global folder, and click Add.

View the users of a global folder

  1. Select the global folder whose user list you want to view.
  2. Click Users on the menu.

Add a user to a global folder

  1. In the global folder, click Users on the menu.
  2. Click Add User.
  3. Select the users you want to add.
  4. Click Add.