Designer Studio basics

Component

Description

This component appears at the top of Designer Studio.

The header identifies the currently selected application and enables you to start processes, search for items, and create new rules and applications.

Commonly used tools in the header include:

• Search

• Landing pages

• The Application menu

• The Operator menu

For details on all of the available options in the header, see Using the header and developer toolbar.

This component appears in the center of Designer Studio.

The work area displays rule forms, lists of records, wizards, landing pages, the home page, and other tools or forms.

You can have multiple items open in the work area. An operator preference controls whether these items display as tabs.

This component appears at the bottom of Designer Studio.

The developer toolbar offers advanced tools such as Tracer and the Clipboard. It also contains system information and a link to the Pega Discovery Network.

For more details, see Using the header and developer toolbar.

This component appears as a panel on the left side of the Designer Studio.

Click any icon to load content in the explorer area:

• Recent: Display and access up to 20 recently opened rules or data instances, wizard items, instance lists, landing pages, and cases.

• Cases: Open and review the case types in your current application. The tree structure helps you identify parent and subcase relationships. Advanced options allow you to edit case types and create new ones.

• Data: Review the data types in your current application and the data pages that are associated with them. You can filter the results by application or applies to class.

• App: Review or open the records that belong to your current and built-on applications. The tree structure organizes rules by class, category, rule type, and instance. See Using the Application Explorer.

• Records: Open a list of records in your system organized by category and type. See About the Records Explorer.

• Private: Review your checked-out rules. See About the Private Explorer.

• Favorite: Review and update your personal or access group favorites. See About the Favorites Explorer.

This component loads in the work area of Designer Studio each time you log in.

Use the home page to get high level information, such as the number of guardrail warnings in your application, a list of assigned tasks, or an overview of the new features in Pega 7.

For more details on all of the available options on the home page, see Working with the home page.

When you create an application with Application Express, the Application Overview landing page appears in the Designer Studio work area instead of the home page.