Designer Welcome Screen

Learn what the Home Screen is for Process Designers, and how they organize your Project assets.

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Overview

The Designer Home Screen serves as your central dashboard, efficiently organizing your daily tasks as a Process Designer. Here, you can swiftly access Projects and their associated assets all in one convenient location.

Quickly access the following:

• Shortcuts to view or create these assets:

  • Processes

  • Screens

  • Scripts

  • Decision Tables

  • Data Connectors

• Shortcuts to your Projects and the assets in them

View the Designer Welcome Screen

Designer Home Screen

Follow these steps to view the Designer Home Screen:

1. Log on to ProcessMaker Platform.

2. Click the Designer option from the top menu. The Designer Home Screen displays.

3. View these panes in the Home Screen:

   • Quickly view or create assets

   • Quickly access Project assets recently accessed

   • Quickly access your Projects

Quickly View or Create Assets

Permissions

To view and create a Project asset from the Designer Home Screen, you must meet any of the following conditions:

• You must be a member of any Project. If you are not in a Project, create your own!

• Your user account or group membership must have the "View" and "Create" permissions for that asset type.

• Your user account has the Make this user a Super Admin setting selected.

View the Designer Welcome Screen to view the Assets pane.

Assets pane in the Designer Home Screen

From the Assets pane, mouse-hover over any of the following to create or view all assets of that type.

• Processes: Create a new Process.

• Screens: Create a new Screen.

• Scripts: Create a new Script.

• Decision Tables: Create a new Decision Table.

• Data Connectors: Create a new Data Connector.

Quickly Access Project Assets

View the Designer Home Screen to view the Recent Assets pane.

From the Recent Assets From My Projects pane, click a Project asset that you recently accessed. The Recent Assets From My Projects pane displays the following information:

• Type: The Type column displays the type of asset.

• Name: The Name column displays the name of the asset. Click the name to edit the asset.

• Last Modified: The Last Modified column displays when the asset was last modified. The time zone setting to display the time is according to the ProcessMaker Platform instance unless your user profile's Time zone setting is specified.

Optionally, click the icon for an asset to view available options. See the note at the end of each of the following topics for options that display for each asset type available in Projects:

• View Active and Inactive Processes

• View Screens

• View Scripts

• View Decision Tables

• View Data Connectors

Quickly Access Your Projects

View the Designer Home Screen to view the My Projects pane.

The default My Projects section displays the following about your Projects:

• Name: The Name column displays the name of the Project.

• Modified: The Modified column displays the date and time any new asset is added or any of its assets modified. The time zone setting to display the time is according to the ProcessMaker Platform instance unless your user profile's Time zone setting is specified.

Optionally, click the icon for a Project, and then select any of the following options:

• Open option. See Open a Project.

• Delete option. See Delete a Project.

• Export option. See Export a Project.