Developer portal basics

Topics

Using the menus
Using the toolbar
Using the Find facility
Using keyboard shortcuts
Home page and slices
Setting preferences
About the Application Explorer tool
Currently Open Views display
Monitor Activity slice
Integration slice
How to complete rule and data form fields
Completing the New Rule dialog
How to enter rule keys using Save As
Identifying parts of rule and data forms

Overview

The Developer portal provides a comprehensive set of navigation and tools, organized for productivity and ease of learning.

• Menus appear at the top of the workspace. Using the menus.
• The toolbar provides access to the forms and tools in use. See Using the toolbar.
• You can personalize the behavior of the portal to match your working conditions and style. See Setting preferences.
• A fast and flexible search facility is always available. See Using the Find facility.

Home page

Click the Pegasystems logo in the upper left of the Developer portal to return to the Home page.

If your processing causes a performance alert (in the STANDARD Thread, rules that are part of the application you are building), an Alert counter appears ( ). Click the counter to access details about alerts from your process. See Working with the My Alerts display.

Six slices of your application are available. See Developer portal basics — Home page and slices

Welcome

Select Help>Welcome to access a panel of facilities for new Process Commander developers.

Image	Label	Description
	Overview	Presents a description of Process Commander and the other products in Pegasystems' SmartBPM suite.
	New application	Starts the Application Accelerator, to create an empty starter application. See About the Application Accelerator.
	New this release	View a description of new capabilities in Version 5.5, from this help system.

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