The Designer general options control how Workflows are displayed in the Steps pane. This includes the indentation, word wrapping, icons, and error description.
To change Designer general options
On the Designer Tools menu, click Editor Options.
Click the General tab, select options as follows:
Reopen last Workflow: Automatically re-opens the Workflow that was last open in the Designer. If multiple Workflows are open when Designer is closed, the active/selected Workflow is the one that will re-open. This option works only when the Workflow Builder is started manually from the Start menu.
Wrap step text: Wraps step text so the entire text is visible in the steps pane. When the step text is not wrapped, a step's description or AML code can extend past the viewable right-hand margin. Use the horizontal scroll-bar to view the step in this situation.
Double-clicking adds to end of Workflow: Double-clicking an action from the Available Actions pane adds the new step to the end of the Workflow. If this is not selected, the step is inserted above the currently selected step. In either case, a new step can be inserted at a desired position by dragging an action from Available Actions pane into position.
Suggest Indent:
When a step is added to a Workflow between Automated Workflow code blocks,
Automated Workflow automatically indents the step to make the code more
readable. This does not affect the runtime performance of the step. An
Automated Workflow code block is the area between a Loop Action and an
End Loop, or between an If step and an End If and/or an Else step. You can also indent steps or remove indents
by clicking the arrow icons
or the Format
Steps icon
, or by pressing CTRL+Right
arrow or CTRL+Left arrow on the keyboard.
Indent: The number of spaces to insert ahead of a step when indenting.
Icons:
Controls the icons displayed next to the steps. Each Automated Workflow
action has an identifying icon. Select Small
icons (16 x 16), Large icons
(32 x 32), or No icons. You can also change the icon display using
the Icon Size icon on the toolbar.
Include error handling descriptions: Controls when the visual view in the Steps pane displays descriptive text about each step's error handling along with descriptive text about the step itself. Every Automated Workflow step performs default error handling if the step fails. Select from the following options:
Only when different from default: Appends descriptive text about the step's error handling only when an error handling option has been set that is different from the default. This will cause the error description to be omitted in the majority of cases because the default error handling is sufficient for most steps.
Always: Appends the error handling description to each step. This can cause extra, redundant text to be displayed in the Steps Window.
Never: Appends the error handling description. The error handling can only be viewed by opening the properties dialog box for the step.