Setting preferences in the desktop Process Designer (deprecated)

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This topic only applies to BAW, and is located in the BAW repository. Last updated on 2025-03-13 12:15
IBM® Process Designer provides several settings to control the appearance and functionality of the editors and interfaces that it includes.

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The following steps describe how to access the preference settings and the following table describes the options that are available.

Note:

To set the locale for IBM Workflow Center and Process Designer, access Workflow Center by opening your web browser to the following location: http://[host_name]:[port]/ProcessCenter. Click Preferences in the upper right corner and choose the language that you want from the list. When you change the locale, you must exit and then restart IBM Process Designer for the change to take effect. (When you are accessing Workflow Center from a browser, you can log out and then log back in for the change to take effect.)

The locale preference that is selected applies to the user who is logged in. Each IBM Business Automation Workflow interface that is started by the same user in the same environment uses this preference setting.

Procedure

To set preferences:

  1. Select File > Preferences from the main menu.
  2. Click the Business Automation Workflow entry to display the available options.
  3. Click the option that you want.
    For example, to set the user name for Blueworks Live process subscriptions, click the Blueworks Live option.
    Option Description
    Blueworks Live Set the Blueworks Live server URL and email address for Blueworks Live process subscriptions.
    Tip: Changing the email address or the URL logs you out of Blueworks Live.
    Capabilities Control the capabilities of the current user. For example, to create external activities in IBM Process Designer, you must enable Business Automation Workflow Developer Capability and Business Automation Workflow Advanced Features.
    User Interfaces Select whether to open coach views and heritage human services in the desktop editor or the web editor by default.
    Decisions Control the locale setting for BAL Rules.
    JavaScript Set preferences for the JavaScript editor included in IBM Process Designer. For example, you can choose whether to display JavaScript warnings.
    Optimizer Settings Set options for the Optimizer. For example, the KPI thresholds that are used by the Visualization Modes are the thresholds from the current working version of your process application or toolkit. If you want to use the KPI thresholds from the snapshot (version) of your process application or toolkit that was most recently run and tracked, change the Optimizer to the following preference setting: Use the KPI threshold values from the actual version of the Process App/Toolkit.
    Passwords Manage the passwords that are stored when running tasks from the Inspector.
    Web Browser Select the web browser to use when web pages are opened from IBM Process Designer. If you do not see a particular external web browser as an option, click New to add it.