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Designer Studio

Designer Studio gives development team members the tools and information they need to build and extend enterprise applications. It is available to users who specify Developer as one of the portals associated with their access group.

The following components are available in Designer Studio:

Header

The header at the top identifies the currently selected application and enables you to start processes, search for items, and create new rules and applications. The header provides access to the search facility and menus.

Application menu

Click the name of your current application to access the Application menu.

The follow options are available:

Resources menu

Resources menu is located to the right of the Operator menu. It contains links to help, Pega Discovery Network, documentation of APIs.

Operator menu

The Operator menu provides access to your Designer Studio preferences and other rules and data information about yourself. It displays initials from your operator ID record as a menu. Click the menu and select its menu items to review your profile, specific rules, and system-wide features.

Work area

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.

Developer toolbar

This component appears at the bottom of Designer Studio. It offers advanced tools such as Tracer and the Clipboard. It also contains system information and a link to the Pega Discovery Network.

Explorer panel

This component is a panel on the left side of the Designer Studio. You can use explorers to quickly view and access important components and information about your application. For more information, see Designer Studio explorers.

Home page

The Designer Studio home page displays high-level information about your current application. This information is displayed in the work area of Designer Studio when you log in. As you develop your application, rules, data instances, and other forms replace the home page in the work area.

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 Platform.

Click the Pega Platform logo in the header of Designer Studio to reopen the home page.

What's new

This panel briefly lists some of the key product changes that were delivered as part of this release.

Guardrail Warnings

This panel gives you a dashboard view of the warnings in your application that were introduced in the last seven days. Use the metrics in this section to understand the distribution of warnings by severity level and how you and your team members affect the health of your application. For more information, see Application Guardrails landing 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.