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There are two types of Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Administration:

• Portal Administration is performed using the Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Administration application. 
  
  
• Host Administration is performed using a separate, web-based application and only a brief review is given here.

Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Administrator Tools

If you have Administrator privilege, to use the Administration application:

1. Go to the Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition home page.
   
   
2. Click in the Services drop-down menu, and select Administration.
   
   The browser displays the Administration application page.
   
   This page contains two frames:

• The Tree Menu, on the left-hand side of the page,  displays an expandable menu showing: 
  
  • All of the configuration actions you can perform
    
  • Your selected list of  users, organizations, roles, suppliers, and so on, that you most commonly need to work with
• The Configuration Form, on the right-hand side of the page, displays the forms, text-entry fields and selection menus you use to configure users, suppliers and other aspects of Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition. 
  
  Click an item in the Administrator Help table of contents (to the left of this page) for more information on these configuration tools.   

Using the Tree Menu

The left-hand side of the Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Administration application page contains a menu that you can expand or collapse. 

This menu contains a nested list of items that you can manage in Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Administration. Menu items may be configuration actions the Administration application can perform, or the names of users, user groups, roles, suppliers, and so on, that can be configured by the configuration tools:

1. Click on a menu item
   
   Information about item is displayed in the Configuration Form, on the right-hand side of the browser window.

A pointer is displayed to the left of menu items that have other items contained in them: 

2. Click to expand the menu and view the contained items
   
   
3. Click to close up the menu and hide the contained items again.

Administrative tasks that you can perform appear in red or blue text in the tree menu:

• Actions that enable you to add or create new items appear in red text. 
  
• Other actions appear in blue text. 

Some items in the menu typically have a large list of items. For example, a list of users in an Enterprise is usually large. To eliminate long lists from appearing in the left-hand frame of the browser window, you can customize this menu to add items that you regularly access, or remove those that you do not:

4. Click on an item that contains a long list, and a Large List Search Pop-up window is displayed. 
   
   
5. Search the list and select an item.
   
   
6. Add or remove the item from the Tree Menu by:

• Clicking Add item type To Menu, or
• Clicking Remove item type From Menu

For example, if you want to have a particular supplier's name displayed in the Tree Menu:

1. Click Add Supplier to Menu
2. Find and click that suppliers name in the displayed list
3. Click Add To Menu

Select an item type in the Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Administration table of contents (at the left) for more information.

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