Designer Studio — Using the Run menu

Menu item

Description

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 user form, so you can enter a work item.
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.

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

Starts the Tracer tool and marks the activity or service rule that appears in the workspace for tracing. 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.
• 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.

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

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

To enable or disable marking of harness, section, flow action, and HTML rules with an H or icon.

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

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

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

To turn on the Style Inspector, allowing you to determine which CSS styles apply to elements of a form, and experiment with style changes

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.

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.