PAS Server Editor

PAS Server Editor

You can use the PAS Server Editor to view or modify PAS instance properties for an ABL Service or a Web UI project.

From the Servers view in the OpenEdge Server perspective, you can access the PAS Server Editor in the following ways:

Double-click a PAS Server instance

Select a PAS Server instance, right-click, and then select Open

The PAS Server Editor provides information in the following categories:

General Information — Provides the host name and other common settings

Connection — Specifies the information for connection to the OpenEdge Explorer

Publishing — Specifies the publish settings

Timeouts — Specifies the time limit to complete server operations (Start and Stop)

General Information

You can modify the following General Information properties in the PAS Server Editor:

Option	Description
Server name	The name of the PAS Server instance.
Host name	The name of the host machine.
Runtime Environment	The current runtime environment. You can click the drop-down list or the Runtime Environment link to change to a different OpenEdge AVM runtime or OpenEdge version.

You can modify the following OpenEdge Explorer properties in the PAS Server Editor:

Option	Description
OpenEdge Explorer connection	The name of an existing OpenEdge Explorer connection. To add a connection, click Configure .
Progress Application Server for OpenEdge	To choose from a list of available PAS servers, click the drop-down arrow. To refresh the list, click Refresh. Note: Remember that you cannot create a new PAS server in Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge; to create a PAS server, use OpenEdge Management.
ABL Application	The name of the ABL Application that is to be deployed to the selected PAS server instance.

You can modify the publishing settings to choose one of the following options:

Never publish automatically

Automatically publish when resources change

Automatically publish after a build event

You can also set the publishing interval in seconds.

You can specify the time limit (in seconds) for completing Start and Stop server operations.

Note: You can start and stop the PAS Server from the Servers view using the Start and Stop options on the PAS Server's context menu.

You can select this option to publish the source code from the folders that are in the project propath.

You can select this option to publish the r-code code of the source files from the folders that are in the ABL Web App project propath.