2.3.1. Home

Home page is divided into sections matching the operation at hand: Check Out, Execution, Settings, Import, Libraries and Configuration Items.

The Check Out section allows the user to perform Check-Out/Check-In operation to edit and save changes to a workflow. This section will be visible on timestamp selection.

The Execution section allows the user to perform execution operations such as: Start, Resume, Deny, Stop workflow execution and Windows Agents selection. This section will be enabled once a timestamp is checked-out.

• Start button starts the execution of the workflow on the local runtime. 
• Resume button becomes visible when executing activities with Persist state (for example Persist Workflow State, Persist Workflow State Until, Approval, Approval With Values and Wait For More Input activities). 
• Deny button becomes visible when executing approval activities (for example Approval and Approval With Values activities). 
• Stop button stops the execution of the current workflow.
• Windows Agents list provides the available execution agents for the local (if Execution Agent is installed on the same machine) or remote (if Execution Agent is installed on a different machine) execution of the workflow. 

In order to Start the execution of a workflow, all validation criteria must be met. If the validation criteria is not fulfilled, the execution of the workflow is prevented. 

• Required Argument Validation

• Property Validation - undeclared variables are used in activities' parameters

• Runtime Validation - when click on Start button, an Error window opens warning the user about the error:

The Settings section contains one button: Settings.

• Settings button opens a window from where the Designer’s working folders for Workflows and Snippets can be changed. The default path is C:\ProgramData\Flowster Solutions\Flowster Studio\Designer\.
  There are also default applications for external editors, like notepad.exe for PowerShell, SSH, CMD and Other activities that are accepting commands. Quick Binding Filter toggle set to ON will apply a filter to the list of variables/arguments that are displayed to match a property type. Choose Engine at Startup toggle set to ON enables the Engine Selection at startup. Static HTTP Connection toggle set to ON will use a static HTTP connection for requests to Flowster Studio Engine for improved performance. 

The Import section contains one button: Import.

• Import button opens a window where the dependencies can be imported from. The Import section is activated once a timestamp is checked-out.

The Libraries section contains one button: Activity Libraries.

• Activity Libraries button opens a window with a list of categories that contains default or custom activities with matching check-boxes to allow the user to configure which categories/activities to load on Designer startup.  

• NOTE: After the configuration is done, click on the Apply button. The changes will apply to the current Designer session without restart.

The Configuration Items section contains: Refresh Global Variables and Refresh Snippets. When a timestamp is checked-out, two extra configuration items will become visible: Refresh Parameter Groups and Refresh Approval Roles.

• Refresh Global Variables button updates the list of global variables in Quick Binding and Global Variables Tree editor from Global Variables related activities (restart Designer is not required):

• When the update is finished this message will be displayed:

• Refresh Snippets button updates the snippets. When the update is finished this message will be displayed: