Application Window Titlebar:

The title bar shows the full file path and file name when a document is opened. The current selection is shown in the title bar when the option "Show Selection in Window Title" from the "View" menu is enabled.

Menu Bar:

• File Menu

  • General file operations like New, Open, Close and Save

  • Closing the application

• Edit Menu

  • Insert, Delete and Edit and Bulk-Edit connections properties as well as Duplicate connections

  • Set as Default takes the currently selected connection properties and sets them as the new default values for all newly created connections

  • Sort lets you sort all items, only folders or only connections of the current folder ascending or descending

  • Move Up and Move Down lets you change the sort order for items (folders and connections) individually. You can also use Drag & Drop to change the sort order. Hold the CTRL key to duplicate a connection while you drag.

• Actions Menu

  • Connect, Connect with Options, Disconnect and Reconnect

  • The Change Menu lets you enable/disable Smart Reconnect and Smart Sizing. You can also change the window mode while the session is active to move an embedded remote desktop session to an external window and vice versa.

  • Switch to Dashboard and Remote Desktop

• View Menu

  • Show Toolbar, Show Statusbar, Show Selection Label and Show Selection in Window Title lets you customize the UI and maximize the workspace

  • Show Activity Log displays the application internal log messages

  • Refresh forces the UI to rebuild all items

• Tools

  • Save Window Settings on Exit and Save Window Settings now controls how Royal TS stores the Window position and settings

  • Confirm Close nags you when you want to quit Royal TS but still have active connections

  • Options shows the options dialog to configure Royal TS and define the default values for new connections

• Help

  • Links to homepage, this online help and the about page

  • Check for updates looks if there is a new version of Royal TS available

Toolbar:

You can hide the toolbar using the View->Hide Toolbar command. The toolbar shows a subset of the available menu commands with one exception:

The textbox next to the "Add:" label helps you to quickly add a new connection to the current selected folder. The created connection's hostname and connection name is used from the quick-add textbox, all other settings are taken from the default settings.

Statusbar:

The statusbar shows the last log entry with the timestamp. For more log entries open the log window usint the View->Show Activity Log command.

Navigate Panel:

Shows all configured connections in a navigation tree. The root tree node is the document node. Select the document node and click on Edit to change the document name or encryption properties.

The document node has folder nodes which contain at least one or more connections.

Right now, there is no support for nested folders and you cannot create folders explicitly. You always need to create a new connection and choose which existing or new folder this connection should be placed in. Deleting the last connection of a folder, will also delete the folder.

Content Panel:

Dependent on the node type and node state you will see the following content in the right panel:

• Document Node (tree root node):
  Shows all connections in a list

• Folder Node:
  Shows all connections from the selected folder in a list

• Connection - Not Connected
  Shows the dashboard. From there you can see the current session information of the remote host as well as reset sessions and send messages to remote sessions.

• Connection - Connected
  Clicking on a connected session in the tree will take you to the remote desktop. To get to the dashboard while still connected you need to either select the Actions->Show Dashboard command or click on the Show Dashboard button in the toolbar.

About the connection list:

When the document or a folder is selected you'll see a list of connections. This list can be used to sort the list, bulk-editing, bulk-remove, bulk-connect/disconnect and filtering.

Use the search box to search for a textfragment in any of the shown columns. Use the filter buttons to show all, only active or only inactive items.

Select multiple items to delete or edit their properties. Bulk-editing allows you to override one or more sections. To just update your credentials for a number of connections, select them, click on Properties and check the option "Override Credentials". Provide the new credentials and click on OK.

Use the same technique to update specific display settings for some of your connections, just select the option "Override Display" instead.