When you start Process Designer Express, by default the main window is displayed as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5. Process Designer Express main window
The layout of the Process Designer Express window consists of the following areas:
The template tree view in the left pane uses a hierarchical format to list the collaboration template's definitions, scenarios, and messages. Click the plus sign (+) next to an existing scenario node in the tree to expand its subtree and view its existing scenarios and subdiagrams, if any.
This window is used to provide general information about the collaboration template, variable declarations, or port information. See Template Definitions window for more information.
This window is used to display the nodes of the activity diagram. For more information, see "Diagram editor window".
This window is used to write or edit the template's message file. For more information, see "Template Messages window".
The Template Definitions and Template Messages windows and the Diagram Editor can be minimized, maximized, and sized (opened to a user-specified size) within the working area. For more information, see "Displaying windows within the working area".
The compile output window (often called just the output window) displays results from the compilation of a collaboration template. Process Designer Express automatically displays this window when you compile the collaboration template. For more information, see "Compiling a collaboration template".
You can access Process Designer Express's functionality in any of the following ways: