2.1. Open/Close

Open Designer Application

Designer application can be opened by clicking on Flowster Designer icon. Alternatively it can be started by navigating to the installation folder (file manager or command line) and executing Designer.exe. The Login window will open to allow users to login with desired authentication provider.

HINT: when you open Designer for the first time after installation, use the SuperAdmin user set during installation to have unlimited access to Designer resources. In order to define new user roles to build and manage workflows (nn. user roles are grouped in security Groups), please check 1.3.3.2. Security groups.

The default provider is Active Directory. To select another provider, click on Sign in via other Authentication Providers option:

Enter the name of the tenant that has other authentication providers configured and click on Next to select the desired provider from the list of available providers, except the Active Directory default provider:

Below are examples of Login for all three supported authentication providers:

Active Directory authentication

Provide the domain\username and the password:

Google and Azure Authentication

Select Google or Azure from the list and click Login. A new login page will open in web to input credentials. If credentials are valid, Designer application will open. 

In Designer, the user can set the Choose Engine at Startup option. If the option is disabled in the Settings window, then Designer will start without engine selection.

Open Designer with Engine Selection

If the Choose Engine at Startup option is enabled in the Settings window, when Designer is started, the user must select an engine to which the Designer will connect to.

At the first start of Designer, there will be discovered all engines with matching GUID. When starting Designer again, there will be displayed a cached list with all previously discovered engines. For a new discovery, click on the Discover button.

If needed, manual inputs and DNS inputs can be used. The manual inputs can be inserted in the engines list, by writing a Flowster Engine endpoint in the Manual Input field and clicking Add.

NOTE: for a manually inserted endpoint to be visible in the list at a new start, disable the Auto Discover option, especially if the added endpoint cannot be discovered via the network. The Auto Discover option will try to populate the list with all the discovered Flowster Engine endpoints in the network.

For creating a DNS endpoint the following steps need to be executed:

• Open control panel and go to: Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools

• Click on DNS and a message box to choose the DNS server will pop up

• After chosing the Windows DNS Server a new window containing DNS Manager will appear. Go to the path you want to add the endpoint. Right click and select “Other New Record”

• Select “Service Location(SRV)” as a resource record type

• Add correct endpoint data and save entry

• When starting Designer choose DNS and add SVR Record path. Click Refresh

• Select endpoint and click on OK button. Designer should open with the selected endpoint. If engine doesn’t exist then Designer or engine exist and user has no rights then the no rights error message will show and Designer will not open.

The engine endpoint format should be with IP or with the machine’s name:

https://IPAddress:5500

https://Hostname:5500

Close Designer Application

To exit Designer:

• Select the Exit option from the File Application Menu

  • A Caution window will open to ask if you want to check in the current workflow if a workflow is checked out.

  • Click on Yes button to check in the workflow or No button to exit application without saving the current workflow.

• Click on button on the title bar

  • A Caution window will open to ask if you want to check in the current workflow if a workflow is checked out.

  • Click on Yes button to check in the workflow or No button to exit application without saving the current workflow.