Back Forward Designer Studio — Using the Availability Run menu

Click the Run icon Availability in the Quick Launch bar of the Designer Studio to access the Run menu. Use the Run menu to test components of the application you are developing.

Menu item

Description

Run Process > name

Select a starter flow from those listed, which correspond to those associated with the current work pool name. The flow starts and presents the New work object form, so you can enter a work object.
Depending on your personal preferences, the New form appears in a pop-up window, in the Designer Studio workspace, or in a separate portal window (and separate Thread). Set the Run Process in values in the General preferences group as desired to control the window type, the portal, and the skin rule used. GRP-305

Open Portal

Switch from the Designer Studio portal (Developer) to another portal, from those listed in your access group.

Trace Open Rule

Starts the Tracer tool and marks the activity or service rule that appears in the workspace for tracing. C-2430 The rule may belong to any RuleSet you can execute, including a RuleSet not marked for tracing in the Trace Options panel.

  • If an activity is visible in the workspace, tracing of the activity appears whenever your current requestor session starts the activity. PROJ-510 5.3 KENDM.
  • If a service rule is visible in the workspace, tracing can occur whether the rule is executed in the current foreground requestor session as a test or later in a separate requestor session (on the same node). Tracer — Tracing services. BUG-2001

This menu option is available only when an activity rule or service rule is open and visible. B-19848

Rules Inspector

Four menu settings affect the display of work object forms and portal forms. To interpret the results of these settings, see About the Rules Inspector tool.

Rules Inspector > HTML Rules

To enable or disable marking of harness, section, flow action, and HTML rules with an H or H icon. GENTJ 6/14/06 not fragment

Rules Inspector > Property Rules

To enable or disable the marking of visible properties. A small red P identifies each property reference.

Rules Inspector > Declarative Rules

To enable or disable the marking of properties computed by Declare Expression rules. A small red D identifies such properties.

Rules Inspector > Field Value Rules

To enable or disable the marking of text labels for which field value rules are defined. PROJ-212

Rules Inspector > Styles

To turn on the Style Inspector, allowing you to determine which CSS styles apply to elements of a form, and experiment with style changes5.5 GRP-262

Performance

Opens the Performance tool for the current Thread. The initial Performance tool display provides access to the DB Trace tool the Profiler tool. About the Performance tool. REMOVED Performance Graph

My Alerts

Lets you view lines from the current Alert log on the server node produced by your own requestor session. See Working with the My Alerts display.

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