Navigating the User Interface

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The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Designer offers a variety of tools and options to assist you in creating projects and process flows. You can customize the GUI to fit your work needs. For example, you can drag and drop toolbars and move, resize, minimize, or hide panes.

Like most applications, Designer provides several ways to perform a task and achieve the same result. Most tasks can be initiated from either a main menu option, a toolbar icon, or by right-clicking an item and selecting an option from the drop-down list. For example, to save a project you can do any one of the following:


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The Designer Window

The Designer window provides the following panes to construct your projects and display project-related information:

The Properties Window pane does not automatically appear when you open Designer. To access this pane, select Properties Window from the View menu. This pane provides details on selected objects that are part of a process and allows you to edit its properties.

The following image shows an example of the Properties Window pane that contains information about a Start object. At the top of the window, the object name is displayed from a drop-down list, the properties appear beneath the name and are available in two formats as indicated by two tabs, Alphabetic and Categorized. Details about the selected property appear beneath the properties pane.


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