Setting preferences in the desktop Process Designer (deprecated)

IBM® Process Designer provides several settings to control the appearance and functionality of the editors and interfaces that it includes.

About this task

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 Process Center Console and Process Designer, access the Process Center Console 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 Process Center Console 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 Process Manager interface that is started by the same user in the same environment uses this preference setting.

Procedure

To set preferences:

Select File > Preferences from the main menu.
Click the IBM BPM entry to display the available options.

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 IBM BPM Developer Capability and IBM BPM 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.