Where to edit Process Designer artifacts

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The desktop Process Designer is deprecated. Use the newer Process Designer in a browser unless you are updating artifacts that you can edit only in the traditional desktop Process Designer.

Table 1. Where you can edit Process Designer artifacts
Artifacts	Editable in the desktop Process Designer	Editable in the Process Designer
Traditional: Advanced Integration Service (AIS)	Yes	Yes
Traditional: Ajax Service (deprecated)	Yes	In Process Designer, you use a service flow with the appropriate Ajax access defined. To convert an Ajax service to a service flow, see Mapping Ajax service artifacts.
Blueworks Live Subscription	Yes	Yes
Business Object	Yes	Yes
Traditional: Business Process Definition (BPD) (deprecated)	Yes	In Process Designer, you can launch a BPD as a linked process from a process. To convert BPDs to processes, see Converting BPDs to processes.
Chart Type	Yes	No
Client-Side Human Service	No	Yes
Content Management toolkit	Yes	Yes
Content Objects	Yes	Yes
Traditional: Decision Service (deprecated)	Yes	In Process Designer, use a service flow. To convert a Decision service to a service flow, see Mapping Decision service artifacts
Decision support in Service Flows	Yes	Yes
Traditional: Design File	Yes	Yes
Traditional: Document Type	No	Yes To use document types, you must have installed the Basic Case Management feature from a previous release
Event Subscription	Yes	Yes
Exposed Process Value	Yes	Yes
Traditional: External Implementation	Yes	Yes In Process Designer, you create an External Service with an External Implementation binding.
External Service: REST service	No	Yes
External Service: Java™ service	No	Yes
External Service: Web service	No	Yes
Traditional: General System Service (deprecated)	Yes	In Process Designer, use a service flow instead of a general system service. To convert a General System service to a service flow, see Mapping General System service artifacts.
Traditional: Heritage Coach (deprecated)	Yes	Yes Heritage coaches are not supported in a Container runtime environment. You can open heritage human services that contain heritage coaches in the Process Designer. Basic support is available for editing heritage coaches in XML view only. Creation of heritage coaches is not supported in Process Designer.
Heritage Human Service (deprecated)	Yes	Yes Note that heritage coaches included in heritage human services are not supported in a Container runtime environment. Artifacts such as Send Alert are not supported in the Process Designer. To view or edit them, use the desktop Process Designer.
Traditional: Historical Analysis Scenario (deprecated)	Yes	No
Traditional: IBM® Case Manager Integration Service (deprecated)	Yes	In the Process Designer, use a process with ad-hoc activities instead of the IBM Case Manager Integration Service.
Traditional: Integration Service (deprecated)	Yes	In Process Designer, use a service flow instead of an integration service. To convert an Integration service to a service flow, see Mapping Integration service artifacts.
Traditional: Key Performance Indicator (KPI)	Yes	No
Layouts (Chart Type, Report Filter, etc.)	Yes	No
Traditional: Localization Resource	Yes	Yes
Process	No	Yes
Process Application Setting All settings are not available in both Process Designer editors. To see the difference, open the process app editor in the desktop and Process Designer and compare the two.	Yes	Yes
Report	Yes	No
REST service (inbound)	No	Yes
ScoreBoard	Yes	No
Server File	Yes	Yes
Service Flow		Yes
Traditional: Service-Level Agreement (SLA)	Yes	No
Traditional: Simulation Analysis Scenario (deprecated)	Yes	No
System Data toolkit	Yes	Yes
Team	Yes	Yes
Theme	No	Yes
Traditional: Timing Interval	Yes	No
Tracking Group	Yes	Yes
Undercover Agent	Yes	Yes
User Attribute Definition	Yes	Yes
View	Yes	Yes To use responsive features in views, for example, to have the runtime behavior respond to different screen size environments, you must edit views in the Process Designer. Positioning and grid are also available only in the Process Designer. To convert deprecated coach views into UI views, see Mapping deprecated functions to UI functions.
Web File	Yes	Yes
Traditional: Web Service (inbound)	Yes	Yes