Updating Designer Studio Preferences

You access all your manually managed preferences from the Operator menu. Each setting is retained between sessions until you explicitly change it.

To update Designer Studio preferences, do the following.

1. On the Operator menu, click Preferences. The Operator menu is labeled with your full name and appears in the Designer Studio header.
2. From the Override default application skinlist, select a skin rule from the list of options.

This rule overrides the skin specified in your portal rule. It is applied to processes that you run from the +Create menu and any harness, section, or flow action that you open, edit, or preview. Any circumstanced versions of your selected skin rule are evaluated at run time.

3. Select the Auto checkout on save as check box to automatically check out a rule after you create it by using the Save as option. Ensure that your Operator ID and the appropriate rulesets support rule checkout before you set this preference.
4. From the Swim-lane orientation list, select an option to control the default presentation of swimlanes when you create a flow. You cannot override this setting in the Flow form after a flow is created.
5. In the PMF User ID field, enter your Project Management Framework (PMF) user ID if it is different from your application ID.

The value that you specify ensures that project work appears in your Project Worklist and your development updates are tracked in PMF. You can leave this field blank if your application ID and PMF ID are the same.

Note: This option is visible when project tracking is enabled in your application. For more details, refer to the Project Management Framework User Guide on the PDN.

6. Select the Include tab check box to display open items as tabs in the Designer Studio work area.

Clear this check box to include only one item at a time in the Designer Studio work area. When you close an item, the next, most recent item loads in the Designer Studio work area. Use the Recent Explorer to make navigation among open items easier.

You must log out of Designer Studio for updates to this preference to take effect.

7. Click Save to apply your changes.
8. To restore your preferences to the values that were assigned when you first created your operator, click Apply Default Preferences followed by Save.

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