Using the Menu

Workflow Designer menu bar offers commands that allow you to create, modify and save workflows.

File Menu

New Creates a new workflow on the StarTeam Server of your choosing. If you are not already logged on to the server configuration that will store this new workflow, you must select the server configuration and provide logon information.
Open Opens an existing workflow file. If you are not already logged on to the server configuration that stores the workflow, you must select the server configuration and provide logon information.
Close Closes the current workflow file.
Save Saves the current workflow file and checks in a new revision. There is no working file. This is equivalent to a force check-in.
Save As Saves the current workflow file, allowing you to specify a new name or location, and checks in a new revision. If the application already has a file with this name at this repository location, you are asked if you want to overwrite the existing file. If you agree, a force check-in is performed. No working file is affected.
Save As Disabled Deletes everything in the workflow file, saving a single <Disabled/> XML tag in its place. This tag disables workflow processing. To restore the workflow to its pre-disabled condition, check out a previous revision, import it into Workflow Designer, and save it. Why do you disable workflows? Suppose you have created a workflow and APE for change requests for an entire project. However, you want one view to have no workflow. In the folder for that one view in the StarFlow Extensions project, you would place a disabled workflow. When the application sees that the workflow has been disabled, it uses the APE without workflow.
Import Loads a previously exported Workflow xml file into Workflow Designer.
Export Saves the workflow document as a local .Workflow.xml file. Does not check in a new revision. This feature allows you to save a workflow that contains errors.
Check for Errors Examines the workflow for errors that could prevent it from running and displays the results. Finding no errors does not mean that the workflow will run correctly, but it should run once the errors are corrected.
New Workflow Step Allows you to draw a new step in the workspace.
Print Prints the current workflow, reducing the diagram to fit on a single page.
Exit Shuts down the program.

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Edit Menu

Undo <edit action> Reverses the last edit made to the current workflow.
Redo <edit action> Restores a previously undone edit.
Normal Zoom, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Zoom To Fit, Zoom To Box Adjusts the zoom level of the displayed workflow.
Overview Creates a thumbnail view of the workflow’s graphical representation within the window.
Workflow Properties Displays and allows you to edit the properties of the current workflow.
Step Properties Displays and allows you to edit the properties of the currently selected step.
Delete Removes the current selection from the workspace.
Create All Steps Creates a step for each of the values of the workflow control property that do not already have steps.
Select All Selects all elements in the current workflow.
Select All Steps Selects all steps in the current workflow.
Link Options Allows you to specify colors for the links between steps and to display link text (the properties and values that drive the links). By default, the link text is cleared whenever you open a workflow. You have to turn it on if you want to see the conditional text for a link. Most customers prefer to hover over the link to display the conditional text as a tool tip.

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Layout Menu

Align Lines up two or more selected steps vertically or horizontally. Options include Top and Left.
Make Same Size Adjusts the size of two or more selected steps. Options include Height, Width, and Both.
Show Grid Displays a grid on which to align steps.
Snap To Grid Automatically aligns a step on a gridline when you move the step near the line. The gridlines do not have to be displayed.
Set Grid Size Allows you to adjust the size of the grid.
Automatic Layout Arranges the workflow steps and links, usually in landscape orientation.
Apply FLW Imports the layout instructions for workflows that were created in the Outlook-based versions of this product (Workflow Designer 5.2 was the first release that was not Outlook-based.)

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