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:
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.
Click the name of your current application to access the Application menu.
The follow options are available:
Open Overview - Open the Application Overview landing page.
This landing page displays an executive summary application details, such as business objectives, actors, assumptions, and specifications.
Open Application - Open the Application form for your current application.
Open Mobile Apps - Open the Mobile Apps form for your current application.
Open Application Skin - Open the Skin form for your current application.
New Application - Start the New Application wizard, which is a tool that generates an enterprise-level application, based on your input.
For more information, see New Application wizard.
Switch Application - Select an application from the alphabetized list to become your current application.
The list of available options is populated based on the access groups defined on your Operator ID form. If more than one access group points to the same application, the Switch Application menu displays the application label followed by the access group in parenthesis.
The scope of the Application Explorer and other features in Designer Studio are dependent on your current application.
Switch Work Pool - Select a work pool from the list set your default work pool.
The list of available options is populated based on the work pools defined on your current Access Group form.
For more information, see Access Group - Completing the Advanced tab.
Resources menu is located to the right of the Operator menu. It contains links to help, Pega Discovery Network, documentation of APIs.
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.
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. It offers advanced tools such as Tracer and the Clipboard. It also contains system information and a link to the Pega Discovery Network.
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.
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.
This panel briefly lists some of the key product changes that were delivered as part of this release.
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.