Workspaces & navigation

Find your way around

The workspace selector at the top switches between saved connections and named workspaces. Explorer is on the left; query, aggregation and Shell tabs occupy the editor area. The bottom status area shows connection information, background jobs and the application version.

The three-line application menu at the top right contains workspace creation, Shell, connection management and Settings. Drag the Explorer divider to adjust its width.

Create a named workspace

1. Choose Application menu → New workspace.
2. Name it for a task or environment, such as “Order investigation”.
3. Add the saved connections you need and configure their visible namespaces.
4. Save the workspace, then select it in the workspace selector.

Each connection appears as a section in Explorer. Tabs from different connections share the workspace's editor groups, while each tab retains its own connection, database and collection. Check the target displayed in the editor or tab tooltip when comparing similarly named collections.

Limit what Explorer shows

A workspace member can show All namespaces, a selection made with checkboxes, or names matching regular expressions.

• Selecting a database as a whole also includes its future collections. Selecting individual collections makes an explicit list.
• Regex filters are case-sensitive and have no surrounding slashes. A blank expression matches everything.
• Database and collection expressions must both match. The collection expression sees just the collection name.

Database pattern: ^shop$
Collection pattern: ^(orders|customers)$

These settings control Explorer visibility. They do not change MongoDB permissions or add a filter to queries, and they do not close tabs that are already open.

Use tabs and side-by-side groups

Right-click a collection and choose:

• Open to focus an existing tab in the active group, or open one if necessary.
• New tab to start an independent query for the same collection.
• Open to side to use the other editor group for comparison.
• Open aggregation to start a collection-scoped pipeline editor.

Right-click a tab to rename, reorder, duplicate, split, move it to the other group or close other tabs. Duplication copies the draft without executing it. Drag the divider between the two groups to change their widths. Middle-click closes a tab.

Use Shift + F10 or the keyboard's Context Menu key to open menus on focused Explorer items. In a submenu, Right opens it, Left returns, and Escape dismisses the current menu level.

Switching and restoration

Switching workspaces keeps tabs, drafts and in-memory results. It does not rerun queries. Selecting a connection or workspace connects as needed.

With Remember workspace state enabled, workspace definitions, query drafts, Shell scripts, aggregation drafts and layouts can return after restart. Results remain memory-only, and restored tabs do not run automatically. Read what Remember saves before relying on it for restoration.