Process Assembly Perspective

You are an automation architect. You create and configure objects and you write scripts to extend the object configuration options. You design Workflows.

The Process Assembly perspective is your main (although not only) working area.

You can access the Process Assembly perspective directly from the DX Operational Intelligence platform as follows, see Accessing Automic Automation for AIOps.

The Process Assembly perspective has the following main elements:

Navigation Pane

The area on the left is the navigation pane. It contains the following tabs:

Explorer

The Explorer shows the folders where objects are stored. If you have the necessary permissions, you can create folders.

In the Explorer list, the following columns are displayed by default:
- Name
  
  Folder or object name
- Title
  
  Optional, descriptive title to help identify the purpose of the folder or object
- Type
- Platform
  
  You can only assign individual Agents to a group if they all have the same platform.
- Last Modified
- Opened by
- Version
The following columns are also available but hidden by default:
- Archive Key 1 and Archive Key 2
  
  Archive keys are keywords you assign to the object. Later on you can perform searches or you can filter objects using them:
  - Archive Key 1 is limited to max. 60 characters
  - Archive Key 2 is limited to max. 20 characters
The Explorer also gives you access to the following functions:
- My Favorites
  
  Add the objects that you regularly work with to your favorites to find them as quickly as possible. The objects are not moved from its source location. Moving objects to your favorites simply creates a link to those objects. You can perform all the actions that you are entitled to also from this folder.
- Recently Used
  
  This list contains the 50 objects you last worked with. Right-click any object to open the context menu that gives you access to all the functions available for that object, according to your user privileges.
  
  The only exception is importing objects. You cannot import objects because the items in this list are links to the actual objects.
- Recycled Bin
Packs

This list contains the Packs that are available to you.

For more information, see Pre-Configured Workflows as Action Packs.

Toolbar

When you select an object or a pack, the toolbar displays the name of the folder where it is stored. It also enables the buttons that are relevant for the selected object. For example, if a folder contains a Job and a VARA object, the Execute button is not enabled because one of the objects (VARA) is not executable.

The following buttons are available:

Add Object and Add Folder open the Add ... dialogs.
Open

Opens the selected object in edit mode
Delete

Moves the selected object to the Recycle Bin
Execute

Executes the selected object immediately. Click the arrow to display more execution options
Executions

Opens a list with historical data on the execution of the selected object
Last Report

Opens the Reports window displaying the latest report of the selected object
Last Monitor

Opens the latest monitor of the selected executable object
More button

Expand it to access more functions that are available to the selected folder or object
Details button

Opens a pane with detailed information about the selected object
Export Table

Exports the content of the list as comma-separated values in a CSV file
Refresh button

Refreshes the view

Details Pane

The Details pane is displayed when you select an object and click the Details button in the toolbar. This pane provides the most important data on the object. It is organized in collapsible sections:

General

Most important setting on the object General page.
History

User who created the object and user(s) who modified it as well as how often.
Runtime

Estimated runtime for the object
Authorizations

Authorizations set on the selected object