Orchestrator Studio Features

When you click any of the components icons on the Orchestrator Studio Home page, the corresponding component side panel is displayed. Locator link on the top-left of the Orchestrator Studio enables you to keep track of the components you have used to navigate to your current component. You can click the Home page link in the locator link to return to the Orchestrator Studio Home page. When you click on any component in the locator link, the associated design page is displayed.

The Orchestrations side panel contain the following features:

• New button. Create a new component.

• Restore. Updates the component list so that the changes to component information is reflected. When using the Restore button, value in the Search field value and drop-down selections are preserved.

• Sort drop-down list. Enables you to sort the components in the component list by name, product code, date, and category. For Connectors, you can also sort by the type of connectors such as Rest, Orchestration, Open API connectors, and so on.

• Sort Order button. Enables you to sort the components in ascending or descending order.

• Group toggle. Enables you to group and view the components in the component list by UDO status.

• Group filter drop-down list. Enables you to view components in the component list by UDO status: Personal, Pending Approval, Rework, Reserved, Shared, or All.

• Search field. Search for an existing component in the list.

• Category filter drop-down list. Enables you to search for an existing component with the category label that you have selected. (Release 9.2.4.2)

  The Category drop-down list displays only the categories that you have assigned to orchestrations or orchestration components. This could be the ones that you selected from the list of category values and the ones that you entered in the Category field on the component design page. (Release 9.2.4.2)

• Close. Exit the side panel to access the design page.

• Component list. Displays a list of existing components. For each of the components, the list displays the component name, category, product code, date and time the component was created, and description. The date and time are displayed based on the user's date and time zone settings.

  Note: If a component has a product code of 55, the product code value "55" is not displayed in the component list. (Release 9.2.4.2)

The Orchestrations design page contain the following features:

• Show List. Click to display the component side panel.

• Name. Name of the component.

• Description. Description of the component.

• Long Description. Click the button to provide more detail about the component.

• Product Code. Select a product code to associate with the component.

• Version. All orchestrations created in Orchestrator Studio 9.2.4 are saved as version 3 orchestrations. You cannot change this value.

• Category. Select a category to categorize the orchestration or the orchestration component. You can choose from the available category values or enter a new value in the Category field. (Release 9.2.4.2)

  Category is useful because you can sort, filter, group, and export orchestrations by the category label.

  Even if you do not have the ability to share the category values, you can still enter a new category and assign it to orchestrations or orchestration components. The category values that you have entered and not shared, do not appear in the Category drop-down list.

  Note: The Category drop-down list displays only those categories that have the Category Type Code value selected as "ORCH" in the Category Manager.

• Share. Click the button if you want to save your category for reuse by others. (Release 9.2.4.2)

  Note: You cannot share an existing category.

• Save. Saves the orchestration component to a status of "Personal."

• Delete. Deletes a "Personal" UDO.

• Manage.

  • Export File. Export the component file to your local machine, which you should use only to inspect the XML of the component. See Exporting Orchestration Components from the Orchestrator Studio in this guide for more information.

  • Restore. Restore the component to its original state if you made a mistake and do not want to save your changes.

  • About. Takes you to the About page which provides the type, name, description, group, product code, and object name of the selected component. It also displays a list of the orchestrations along with the object name (UDO ID) where the component is used.

• Canvas. Provides a graphical representation of an orchestration with all its components. See Working with the Graphical Representation of an Orchestration