Introducing Designer Studio

Designer Studio is a powerful and comprehensive solution for designing, publishing and accessing the modules that automate your business processes. It simplifies the development of complex processes by using a desktop-based tool which allows you to create the required components in a single user interface. Using Designer Studio you can create, manage, and maintain the modules for all your business processes. It comprises the following elements for building modules:

Using these tools anyone can develop an effective module with just a few clicks and without writing a line of code. You don't have to be a technical wizard! The intuitive design allows modules to be delivered rapidly, without any programming knowledge. Single actions can be performed in multiple ways to accommodate different working practices and a click-and-drag approach to designing workflow help provide a user-friendly working environment.

Licences

Designer Studio has two levels of licence, Professional and Enterprise.

Professional Licence enables you to create, select, open, edit and use:

The Professional licence enables clients, who do not require the full functionality of Designer Studio, including workflows, to extend the use of PMS and modules by adding user-defined screens with fields and pick lists. This enables you to expand the data capture ability by adding additional screens to your existing modules and adding relevant fields to hold the data.

Enterprise Licence enables you to:

Use all the Designer Studio functionality including all features from the Professional level, plus create, select, open, edit and use:

The Enterprise licence enables client to make use of the full functionality of Designer Studio with formulas and lookup tables and by automating processes using workflows. This enables you to create additional modules and use workflow to automate procedures.

The sections in this manual have been marked to indicate those which apply to the Enterprise licence only. Those not marked apply to both Enterprise and Professional licences.

Components

Every module will contain various components. These are the building blocks of your business processes. For example, in order for the person who interacts with your module to capture information you would need to create fields against entities and place them on a screen. You would then need to display the screen using a piece of workflow. Almost any activity can be orchestrated using the components available.

Run-time

As you know, Designer Studio allows you to design automated solutions for your business processes. However, it cannot be used on its own. It takes care of the design aspects, but the run-time experience is initiated through the ALB desktop. This is where your users run and interact with your modules. In order to expose your modules in ALB there are a number of steps to follow. For more information, please refer to Add a module to a matter.

*Note Document design has not been integrated into Designer Studio therefore documents and Laserform mappings must be designed via the Document Template library in ALB Utilities. However, to provide easy access, a link has been provided at the bottom of Component Explorer to open this functionality directly from within Designer Studio.