Interaction between the Process Designer and the deprecated desktop Process Designer
Multiple users can work simultaneously on the same process applications and artifacts in the Process Designer and the deprecated desktop Process Designer, and the changes happen automatically and seamlessly.
Note: The traditional desktop Process Designer is
deprecated.
You can create most of the artifacts in the web editor, but there are some artifacts that you can edit only in the desktop editor, for example business process definitions (BPDs). For more information, see Where to edit Process Designer artifacts.
The interaction between the editors enables efficiently switching between the two:
- The Process Designer opens by default when you open a process application or a toolkit from Workflow Center. To open a process application in the desktop editor, you must launch Workflow Center from the desktop Process Designer.
- The two editors are integrated through Workflow Center and the correct desktop or web editor seamlessly opens when you click an artifact.
- If you are working in the desktop Process Designer and you open an artifact that is created in the Process Designer, for example a process, the Process Designer is started and the artifact is opened in the web editor.
- If you have Process Designer open on your desktop and you are working in the web editor opened from the desktop Process Designer, you can edit certain artifacts in the desktop editor. When you click the artifacts in the web editor, they open in the desktop editor so that you can edit them.
- If you start the Process Designer from the desktop Process Designer, you cannot switch to Workflow Center from the Process Designer. You must return to the desktop Process Designer and open Workflow Center from there.