User Interface Overview

Your user interface is a browser-based application called Automic Web Interface (short AWI). AWI gives you access to all the program areas and functions that you need. The interface provides all standard web browser functions plus multiple proprietary navigation features. It is divided in perspectives. A perspective is an area that contains the functions to which a particular user role should have access. The look and feel of all perspectives follows a similar pattern.

For a detailed description of the perspectives, see:

This page includes the following:

This page includes the following:

Menu Bar

The menu bar is the top ribbon that you see immediately below the browser toolbar. This screenshot shows the menu bar of a user with privileges to work in all perspectives. In your case, you will see the perspectives that you are entitled to:

The menu bar is common to all components and plugins. It gives you access to the following areas and functions:

  1. Customizable logo

  2. Home icon. Click it to open the Dashboards perspective.

  3. Perspectives

    The menu bar shows the perspectives to which you have access according to your user rights and privileges.

  4. Search area

    The global search is the fastest way to search for objects, object dependencies tasks.

  5. Notification area

    If there are requests that you must attend to, the bell icon indicates the number of requests. If there are messages providing information on the status of your processes, the messages icon indicates their urgency. Click the icons to open the Requests view or the Messages pane.

  6. Help button

    Click it to open the context-sensitive online help.

  7. Session information and user settings

    User, Automation Engine system and Client information.

    The user can be displayed in two different ways depending on how your user is configured in DX Operational Intelligence:

    • User's first and last names

      Displayed if they are available in your user definition in DX Operational Intelligence

    • User's email address

      Displayed if your first and last names are NOT available in your user definition in DX Operational Intelligence

    • User ID

      Displayed if your first and last names are NOT available in your user definition in DX Operational Intelligence

    Click the adjacent arrow to expand a dropdown list with options to define your user settings, to see information about your connection and to access some more useful functions.

Perspectives

A perspective is a functional area in the Automic Web Interface that contains the functions that you need to work in accordance with your user role.

The following perspectives are available:

  • Process Monitoring

    This perspective gives you the full range of possibilities to monitor, analyze, identify problems and remediate them.

  • Process Assembly

    In this perspective you create and configure objects and you write scripts to extend the object configuration options. You design and modify Workflows here.

  • Administration

    In this perspective you centrally manage users and agents. You ensure that the system is up and running and that the resources are optimally allocated. You manage connections and monitor them.

  • Home (Dashboards)

    The Dashboards perspective gives quick access to customized views. Dashboards are pages with one or more windows (widgets) that contain different kinds of information and links. If you have the necessary rights, you can add Dashboards.

For more information, see:

Title Bar

The title bar is the ribbon that is displayed immediately below the menu bar when you open an object, a task, a list, and so forth. The title bar shows the information you need to identify the item that is currently open.

Example of the title bar of a Workflow:

Depending on the item that is displayed, title bars contain the following information:

Objects

  • Name
  • Title (if available)

Monitors

  • Name
  • Title (if available)
  • RunID

Execution Lists

  • Type of list (Executions, Parent Executions, Child Executions, Activator Executions)
  • Name of the task
  • Number of records that are displayed
  • Timestamp of the latest update

Reports

  • Name of the task
  • RunID of the execution

Advanced Search

  • Number of objects found
  • Time of the latest index update

Toolbar

Many lists and views have a toolbar with buttons that give you quick access to the most important functions available to the object, task, list or report that is displayed. For example:

Panes

Lists and views have resizable panes.

  • The left pane lets you navigate through the content of the list or view.

    Click an item to open the list/view in the same browser window. Middle-click an item to open it in a new browser window.

    Right-click an item to open a context menu with either the same options as standard browser links provide (Open link in new tab, Open link in new window, Save link as, an so forth) or with AWI-specific options (Open, Move, and so forth).

    This image shows the left pane in the Process Assembly perspective; by right-clicking the DASHBOARDS folder, a context menu is displayed:

    Screenshot of the left pane in the Process Assembly perspective; the user has right-clicked on a folder and the context menu shows the corresponding AWI functions (Open, Move, Clone Folder, and so forth)

  • Right pane

    The right pane, when available, provides information such as details about the selected item (object, task or execution), filter options, and so on.

Variable Icon

Many input fields and combo boxes can be populated with variables and VARA objects (which are a special kind of variables). The user interface displays an icon whenever using variables is possible. For example:

Click the icon to open a dialog where you can select the variable.

See also: