Process Designer Express provides several ways you can change its
display. Access the User Preferences window by clicking View
--> Preferences, or use the shortcut key combination
Ctrl+U.
The User Preferences window has three tabs that allow the following
customizations:
The General tab of the User Preferences window allows you to:
- Enable and disable the display of Workbook tabs at the bottom of Process
Designer Express's working area. Figure 5 illustrates a working area that displays three Workbook
tabs.
- Note:
- Changing this display becomes effective only when you restart Process
Designer Express.
- Enable and disable content validation. Disabling content validation
is useful if a template has become corrupted but you want to inspect it
anyway. However, disabling content validation does not guarantee that
Process Designer Express can open a corrupted template.
- Enable and disable template content compression. This option is not
user-configurable. It is provided to show the current compression
setting. Compressed content can enhance the client-server data transfer
rate and storage requirement.
- Display or hide the standard imports section and Ports and Triggering
Events section in the Template Definition Declarations tab.
- Set the colors for each section of the Template Defintions Declarations
tab and the Scenario Variables window of the Scenario Definitions dialog
box.
Figure 61 illustrates the General tab of the User Preferences
window.
Figure 61. User Preferences dialog box: General tab

The Diagram tab of the User Preferences window allows you to:
- Enable and disable automatic display of a start node in a blank new
diagram. Disabling this display requires the developer to manually add
the start node in each diagram.
- Enable and disable the display of connection points on nodes in an
activity diagram. Displaying connection points facilitates adding a
transition link between two nodes.
- Enable and disable the display of unused branches in a decision
node.
- Enable in-place editing of code fragments in the Action Properties dialog
box. If these options are enabled, you can edit code fragments directly
in the Action Properties dialog box instead of using Activity Editor.
Figure 62 illustrates the Diagram tab of the User Preferences
window.
Figure 62. User Preferences dialog box: Diagram tab

The Diagram Colors tab of the User Preferences window allows you to change
the display color of symbols and links in an activity diagram. For each
symbol or link, press the arrow for the fill or line color field and make your
selection from the drop-down options. Figure 60 illustrates the Diagram Colors preferences window.
Figure 63. User Preferences dialog box: Diagram Colors tab

