Where to edit Process Designer artifacts

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

In the following table, asterisks indicate where you can edit each type of artifact. You can edit most artifacts in the web Process Designer and many artifacts in both editors. Some artifacts must be edited in the desktop Process Designer.

IBM BPM version 8570 cumulative fix 2017.03

Note: The desktop Process Designer is deprecated.

Table 1. Where you can edit Process Designer artifacts
Artifacts	Editable in the desktop Process Designer	Editable in the web Process Designer
Advanced Integration Service	*
Ajax Service	*
Business Object	*	*
Business Process Definition (BPD) Note: You can launch a BPD as a linked process from a Process.	*
Coach View	*	* Note: To use responsive features in coach views, for example, to have the runtime behavior respond to different screen size environments, you must edit coach views in the web Process Designer. Positioning and grid are also available only in the web Process Designer.
Client-Side Human Service		*
Decision Service	*
Design File	*	*
Document Type Note: To use document types, you must have installed the Basic Case Management feature from a previous release.		*
Event Subscription	*
External Implementation Note: Convert external implementations that were created in the desktop Process Designer so that you can use them in the web Process Designer,	*	* In web Process Designer, you create an External Service with an External Implementation binding.
External Service		*
Exposed Process Value	*
General System Service	*
Heritage Human Service	*	* Note: Artifacts such as Send Alert and heritage coaches (deprecated) are not supported in the web Process Designer. To view or edit them, use the desktop Process Designer.
Historical Analysis Scenario	*
IBM Case Manager Integration Service	*
Integration Service	*
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)	*
Localization Resource	*	*
Process		*
Process Application Setting Note: All settings are not available in both Process Designer editors. To see the difference, open the process app editor in the desktop and web Process Designer and compare the two.	*	*
Server File	*	*
Service Flow		*
Service-Level Agreement	*
Simulation Analysis Scenario	*
Team	*	*
Theme		*
Timing Interval	*
Tracking Group	*	*
Undercover Agent Note: You can select and use an undercover agent in a Process in the web Process Designer.	*
User Attribute Definition	*
Web File	*	*
Web Service	*	*