Sequence designer

Overview

To manage sequence templates, select menu Design/Sequences. Click on the add button to create a new sequence template. This is the main screen used to design and save your sequence templates.

Sequence design pane

The upper pane is The design pane and will let you organize your sequence jobs.

Clicking on a job select it. If you are using embedded jobs, the content of the current job will be displayed on the lower pane of sequence designer screen.

Start sequence parameters

Double-click on Start to define global parameters for your sequence.

Start form template:

This will define a user defined form that will show up when starting a sequence.

Forms CSS:

Default CSS to be used for all UIJobs in this sequence

Notification template

Notification Template to use when executing the sequence steps

Notifications Node/Cluster

Node or cluster that will be used to notify users.

Job parameters

Double-click on a job to edit job parameters.

UI Job parameters

If the job is a UI Job:

You can design your form in 2 ways: - as a form object - as an embedded form object.

If you don't choose a external form, the sequence consider that your form is embedded.

This will let you define directly in the sequence to which user or group you want the UIJob to be assigned.

Workflow parameters

Start sequence parameters

Editing an embedded workflow

If you selected a workflow job, the workflow editor be displayed in the lower part

Options

This will let ou switch between the workflow views. - Worfklow: main workflow editor - Wait Until: Specific workflow used to make a workflow wait until something is ready. - Notifications: Let you edit Notifications call based on events

Editing an embedded Form

If you selected a UI Job, the form editor will be displayed

Options

This group of buttons let you:

• define where to put the tabs access

• Add a new tab

• define manually or graphically the size the form

Adding a new job

To add a new job, simply drag one from the right Job selector panel.

The Automate-IT have an extra job available.

Sequence parameter buttons

Sequence Designer

Displays the Sequence template editor

Sequence Tasks reports

Lets you compare current sequence with another version of it.

Permissions

Lets you define the Sequence ACL.

Information

Lets you set the name, description for the current sequence. You can use description field to describe the content of your sequence. This information will be used when searching for sequence in list view.

Sequence actions

Sequence launcher

Let you start a sequence directly from the sequence designer.

Saving

Let you save your sequence. You need to save your sequence before starting it.

Duplicate

Saves a duplicate copy of the sequence.

New version

Creates a new version of the sequence.

Export

Export the sequence as a file that could be imported on another server. Please beware that both server should be running the same version.