If you have been using the Remote System Explorer for some time, your workspace might contain too many filters to navigate easily. Or, you might just want to keep groups of filters separate if, for example, you need to represent two distinct environments in the Remote System Explorer, regardless of how many filters you have. In either case, you can group filters into filter pools.
All filters live in filter pools, but these filter pools remain hidden unless you choose to manage them explicitly. By default, the Remote System Explorer manages all of your filters for you, and they all appear together in all connections. When you create filter pools, however, that filter pool is distinct to that pool, and will not appear in any other connections by default. You need to explicitly add a reference to that new pool from other connections to use these filters. (See the related links for more information about filter pools.)
To illustrate the use of filter pools,
on
the toolbar for the Remote Systems view, and select Show Filter Pools.
on the toolbar for the Remote Systems
view, and select Show Filter Pools again to clear the check mark. When
you do this, any new filters you created with the filter pool are added to
your previous set of filters.