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I am trying to install Worklight 6 following these instructions on the IBM website.

Steps 1 - 10 complete (as far as I can tell) successfully. The instructions then say

Before you run Worklight Studio, determine whether you must run extra post-installation tasks. Important: After you finish installing IBM Worklight Developer Edition, when you restart Eclipse, click Window > Open perspective > Other, and select Design in the Open Perspective window. If you do not select the Design perspective, you cannot see the Worklight entries when you click File > New. When you click File > New after Design is selected, you can see the Worklight entries.

I do not see the entry for Design in the Open Perspective window. The installation history tells me that Worklight is installed so I assume I should be able to complete the What to do next steps but I can't.

Eclipse 4.2.2
IBM 1.7 JDK
Worklight 6
Ubuntu 12.04

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Did you choose to install all 3 options during the installation? Namely:

  • IBM Worklight Studio
  • IBM jQuery Mobile Tools
  • IBM Dojo Mobile tools

In any case, there is another way to add the Worklight options (it will add it to both the File >> New... menu and the right-click context menu >> New...):

  1. Window >> Customize Perspective... >> Shortcuts
  2. In the Shortcuts Categories section on the left side scroll all the way to the bottom and tick the "Worklight" checkbox
  3. Press OK

Even w/out doing the above, you always have the Worklight icon in the top toolbar which hold the same functionality.

Personally I don't like using the File menu for that. I find myself using either the Worklight icon in the top toolbar or the right-click context menu (less restrictive as you can get to it from anywhere you right-click while in Eclipse).

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  • All three are installed. Sadly there is no Worklight option to select in the Shortcuts Categories in your step 2. Something must be messed up. – mez.pahlan Jun 30 '13 at 16:25
  • Is the Worklight icon in the top toolbar even available...? – Idan Adar Jun 30 '13 at 20:09
  • I suggest a new eclipse + workspace and another attempt to install Worklight. – Idan Adar Jun 30 '13 at 20:38
  • The Worklight icon is not available in the top tool bar. I will try another workspace and report back. – mez.pahlan Jul 01 '13 at 07:52
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    Problem fixed. I can now see the Worklight menus and icons. Here's what I had to do: Starting with a fresh install of Eclipse I restarted the IDE as an admin user. I then installed Worklight. I changed the owner of the workspace back to my regular user (since the admin user took ownership of the Worklight files that were installed) and restarted. I can still see the icons and menus. :) Not sure why I couldn't install Worklight as a regular user as I have done with other items for Eclipse. Perhaps a note in the troubleshooting or installation instructions would help others? Thanks for the help! – mez.pahlan Jul 01 '13 at 09:38