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How to Transfer Button Bars to the SecureCRT Command Manager

SecureCRT's Command Manager is a mechanism for saving/sending regularly-used commands that can be stored in a tree view hierarchy similar to what you see in the Session Manager.

It can be thought of as being similar to SecureCRT's button bar, but in a tree-view version.

The Command Manager was introduced in SecureCRT 8.7 for Windows and SecureCRT 9.0 for macOS/Linux.

If you are currently using the button bar in SecureCRT and would like to transfer your button bar definitions into the Command Manager, here are the steps to take:

1. Install SecureCRT 8.7 or newer if you're on Windows, or install SecureCRT 9.0 or newer if you're on macOS/Linux.

2. Open the Button Bar Context menu and choose Copy Button Bar.
   Hints:
   • On Windows, right-click on button bar drop-down selector where the name of the button bar is shown.
   • On macOS, control-click on the empty button bar space between the drop-down selector name and the first button on the button bar. Alternatively, shorten the width of the SecureCRT window until the button bar expansion icon appears on the right-most portion of the button, and control-click on the expansion icon itself to open the appropriate button bar context menu.
3. Expand the Command Manager.
   Hints:
   • If you are on Windows/Linux, use the Alt+Y keyboard shortcut.
   • If you are on macOS, use the Command+Y keyboard shortcut.
4. Right-click on the desired folder in the Command Manager and choose Paste Button Bar. Your button bar definitions will be imported into the Command Manager into a folder matching the name of the button bar that was copied earlier.