About the Process Assembly Perspective

The Process Assembly perspective addresses mainly object and Workflow designers and developers. Here you create and define objects and folders, design them, create scripts, start executions, open execution data, and so on.

Navigation Pane

• Explorer pane

  To keep your objects organized and easier to find, you create folders and sub folders here, and move objects into them. Right-click any of the entries in the Explorer to open a context menu with useful functions.

  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. See Adding to Favorites.

  • My Catalog

    My Catalog is the personal, interactive dashboard of operators. It provides real-time data and links to all the objects they are entitled to work with.

    System administrators configure and maintain the My Catalog dashboards. When they create one, they add to this folder the objects to which the operator has privileges and rights. See Configuring the User Catalog.

  • 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. See Object Links.

  • Recycled Bin, see Deleting Objects/Folders

  • Transport Case

    Objects can be exchanged among Automation Engine systems or individual clients within the same Automation Engine system. Adding objects to the transport case in the originating system is the first step. Once here, you unload its contents and finally load it in the target system/client. See Transport Case.

  • List of folders

    Folders are used to store objects. Administrator users can grant or deny users and user groups permissions to objects at folder level. Folders can be created by default during installation (for example, DASHBOARDS) or manually by a user with sufficient permissions.

• Version Control tab

  Version Control allows you to create and manage multiple versions of an object, export and import these versions to and from a remote repository, rollback changes to a previous version and have access to the Client's commit history. You can synchronize repositories across multiple nodes of a system to access your data and, at the same time, ensure a collaborative working environment for all developers and object designers. For more information, see Version Control.

• Action Packs tab

  Available if the Plugin Manager is installed. This list contains the Packs that are available to you. For more information, see About Packs.

Toolbar

The toolbar displays the name of the folder where the selected object is stored. It also provides shortcuts to the most frequent functions:

• 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.

• Details button

  Opens a pane with detailed information about the selected object

• Refresh button

  Refreshes the view.

Details Pane

Displayed when you select an object and click the Details button on the toolbar, it provides the most important data on the object. This pane 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

See also:

• Objects
• Adding Objects
• Defining Objects
• Designing Workflows (JOBP)
• Searching for Objects
• Working with Objects
• Variables and VARA Objects
• Executing Objects