User Interface

Your user interface is a browser-based application called Automic Web Interface (short AWI). AWI gives you access to all program areas and functions of Automic Continuous Delivery Automation. 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.

Menu Bar

The menu bar is the top ribbon that you see immediately below the browser toolbar. This screenshot shows it:

Screenshot of the AWI menu bar with number on each element. These elements are described in the following numbered list.

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

  1. Customizable logo
  2. Home icon. Click it to open the Dashboards perspective.

  3. Perspectives

    Here you open and close perspectives. You can access the perspectives to which your system administrator has granted you rights.

    • Click the + symbol to select a perspective from the drop down list. The menu bar shows the buttons of the perspectives that you have opened.
    • To hide a perspective, hover your mouse over its button and click the x that is displayed.
    • To re-arrange the order of the perspective buttons on the menu bar, drag and drop the buttons.
    • To open the perspective in a new browser tab, middle-click a perspective button.

    The following perspectives are available:

  4. Notifications

    If there are requests that you must attend to, the Requests button indicates the number of requests. If there are messages providing information on the status of your processes, the Messages button indicates their urgency.

    For more information, see:

  5. Global Search

    The global search is the fastest way to search for objects, object dependencies tasks and entities. See Global Search. It is also the starting point for the Advanced Search.

  6. Help button

    Click it to open the context-sensitive online help. For more information, see Using the Documentation.

  7. Session Information and User Settings

    User, Automation Engine and CDA system and Client information.

    The user can be displayed in two different ways, depending on how your User object definition is configured:

    • If it contains your first and last names (both are optional), they are displayed here.
    • Otherwise, your username and department are displayed.

    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.

    For more information, see:

Browser Tabs

Browser tabs are the markers that identify the pages that have been opened in a browser window. For example:

Screenshot that illustrates what bowser tabs are

The browser tabs of your system provide all standard browser functions plus the following features:

Unsaved Changes

When you make changes to an object or task, an asterisk is displayed in the browser tab. It indicates that there are unsaved changes. If you try to close a tab or to log out without saving the changes, a dialog is displayed that prompts you to decide what to do.

Screenshot showing the asterisk beside the tab name

Connection Color

When you log in to your system, you can select the color that you want to assign to your connection. The icon in the browser tab and in the web notifications as well as the horizontal bar over the menu bar use the color that you have chosen. This color helps you recognize at a glance which browser tabs and windows belong to the same session. This is particularly useful if you work with several connections simultaneously (for example, if you log in to several Clients at the same time).

For more information, see New Connection and Connection Color.

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. It also contains the back button, which leads you to the page that you have previously visited.

Example of the title bar of a Workflow:

Screenshot of the title bar of an object

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

Objects

Monitors

Workflows

Execution Lists

For more information, see Execution Data.

Reports

Advanced Search

Inline Notifications

In some cases, an inline message is displayed below the title bar that informs you of potential restrictions to what you are doing. This screenshot illustrates one such situation:

Screenshot of the additional bar indicating that the object is saved in Client 0

Examples:

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:

Screenshot of a toolbar

Version and Support Information

When you contact the support team, you must provide information about the version of your system and of your plug-ins. You access this information from the drop-down menu at the right corner of the menu bar.

  1. Open the drop-down list.
  2. Select About. A dialog displays the relevant information about your installation.

This dialog also gives you direct access to some useful sites and pieces of information:

For more information, see Files to Aid Technical Support.

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