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# Connecting with LiveView Desktop

This page provides basic instructions for connecting to TIBCO LiveView Server with TIBCO LiveView™ Desktop. See Getting Started with LiveView Server for instructions on starting and stopping LiveView Server.

When LiveView Server is running, start LiveView Desktop and connect to the running server.

On Windows

  On Windows, run LiveView Desktop from the Start menu with Start → All Programs → TIBCO → Live Datamart `n.m` → LiveView Desktop `n.m`

On macOS

  On macOS use Spotlight or Launchpad to locate and invoke the app named `liveview.`

LiveView Desktop opens the Connect to LiveView dialog.

Enter your username. This example uses `sbuser`.

Connections to LiveView Server are made with a URI that uses the `lv` protocol. For LiveView Server running on the default port, 10080, on the same machine as LiveView Desktop, you can use the `localhost` entry. The `localhost` entry loads the simplest URI: `lv://localhost:10080`

For Workspace, enter a name for the sample's Desktop Workspace. This example uses `Minimal sample workspace`. This is different than the StreamBase Studio workspace. The workspace you create will be used for LiveView workspaces. Since this sample does not currently have a saved workspace, you create one locally.

Click OK.

The LiveView Tables section of the interface is empty:

Double-click the Minimal table in the Tables section to open a query window that shows that table's contents. The query window shows an empty table with column headers `pkey` and `val`.