Back Forward Designer Studio — Setting your preferences

Use the Preferences pop-up dialog to review or modify settings that affect how PRPC responds to input or displays information during your design sessions.

To open the dialog, select Preferences from the Operator menu, which is your own full name displayed in the Designer Studio header.

Reviewing and updating preferences

  1. Review or change preferences.
  2. Click Save to apply your changes, which are effective immediately unless otherwise specified. Your settings are retained and apply the next time you log into this system.

To restore all preference settings to the original values that apply to new operators, click Apply Default Preferences and click Save.

The dialog contains the following groups of preferences.

Process Runtime

Using Skin — to select a skin rule to use when you start a process from the Create menu. This skin rule overrides the one used in the portal rule, and is also used when you open, edit or preview a harness, section, or flow action.

If the skin is circumstanced, it will be applied during runtime if the circumstance condition is true.

Rule Actions

Auto checkout on save as — Select to automatically check out a new rule you create with the Save As toolbar operation. (Check out occurs only when both the RuleSet containing the new rule and your own Operator ID are enabled for checkout.)

Flow Settings

Swimlane Orientation — SelectPortraitor Landscape to control the default presentation of Swimlane shapes when you create a new flow. You can override this setting for a flow in the Flow Properties panel.

Project Managment

This section appears only if:

Label

Description
PMF User ID

This ID is used to reconcile different IDs between the application and the framework to ensure that project work appears on your Project Worklist and your development updates are tracked in the framework.

Enter your user ID in the Project Management Framework if that user ID is different than your ID in the application. Otherwise, leave it blank to default and use your application user ID.

For more information about enabling PMF, see the PDN publication Project Management Framework User Guide.

Designer Studio Navigation

To hide the tab bar in the Designer Studio work area, clear the Include Tabs checkbox, click Save, and log off and back onto PRPC. Only one item appears in the work area at a time. When you open an item , it is displayed in the work area and appears as the most recent item at the top of the Recent Explorer. To navigate among the items, use the Explorer or click the Recent icon on the Designer Studio header. When you close an item (using the Close button), the next most current item in the Explorer appears in the work area.