System Folders Tree
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System Folders Tree
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Overview
The System folder contains various options for configuring, customizing, and managing the Decisions environment. This folder can only be viewed and accessed by Administrator accounts.
Select the gear icon to expand the System folder in the Decisions Studio.
Customizing the System Page
If wishing to add or remove information on the System Page Dashboard, search for it in the search bar and open the System Page in the Page Designer. Similar to editing any other Page, admin users may remove tiles of information, create new ones, and/or reassemble the System Page to their preferences.
Before any editing; however, it is a best practice to save a copy of the System Page if any changes must be reversed.
For a step-by-step example of how this is accomplished, please refer to our forum post "Hiding Server Uptime In System Information".
Before any editing; however, it is a best practice to save a copy of the System Page if any changes must be reversed.
For a step-by-step example of how this is accomplished, please refer to our forum post "Hiding Server Uptime In System Information".
System Folder Actions
Action | Action Definition |
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Manage Permissions | Manage and maintain who has access to the Administrative Features and Functions |
Restart Instance | Allows admin users to restart the Service Host Manager from the Studio in circumstances where the user does not have access to the server. |
Update Security Folders | Updates the security folders in the event there are issues with inherited permissions. |
Theme Editor | Change the styling of the Portal and Studio via .LESS files |
License Information | See what kind of license the environment has and when it will expire |
Top-Level System Folders
Folder Name | Folder Description |
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Administration | These are the activities of managing the Decisions instance and configurations |
Applications | Manage projects available in the App Store or the Workflow Catalog |
Designers | Manage the designer configurations that typically appear in the Studio and/or Element Designers |
Integrations | Set up Integrations to external systems, tokens, and webhooks |
Jobs and Events | Setup and maintain Message Queues, Scheduled Jobs, and Events |
Security | Manage the directory to authenticate Decisions users |
Settings | Update settings for DLLs or Decisions default settings |
System Data | Manage the data available in Entities in the environment |
Administration Folder
These are the activities of managing the Decisions instance and configurations
Folder Name | Folder Description |
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Auditing | If Auditing is turned on for the entities, then this will be the folder populates with a report that will display changes for those entities. |
Cache | Configure and Manage different Cache definitions for applications requiring better access to data |
Containers | Allows packaging of application's code, configurations, and dependencies into a single unit |
Deployment Images | Creating an image of the environment to utilize the Container feature |
Features | Install extensions or built-in integrations to Decisions to enhance the platform capabilities |
Importing | Contains Import Assignment and Imported Entities for monitoring information about imported entities. |
Notifications | Contains subfolders: Default Notifications, Notification Flows, Notification Types, Sms carriers. |
Root Nodes | In this folder, add and edit Root Nodes like Knowledge Base and Service Catalog. |
Servers | Can monitor all servers that were used by this instance of Decisions. Additionally, can also Create and Configure Platform Servers in this folder. |
System Tools | This contains several different tools for server administration including Logging, Profiler, System Validation, and Flow Management |
System Tools
Folder Name | Folder Description |
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Automated Testing | Creating and managing Automated Test Sessions. |
Event Viewer | This is a powerful tool to monitor different System Events and Activity(Event Viewer, System Activity, Upgrade History, Boot History, Scheduled Job Log, Cache Size, Thread Jobs, Archived Entities, Accounts Login History, Code Buckets, Message Queues, Client Events, Lock Service Details, Report Activity, Report Execution Statistics, Report Structure). |
Flow Management | A tool to monitor and manage all workflow activities in the portal (Flow Step Browser, Integration Activities, Running Flows, Workflow Queues, Stored Workflows, Recent Flow Results, Flow and Rule Validation, Flow Structure). |
Logging | Viewer for Server and Client Logs. |
Profiler | Ability to Start Profiler Session, record some activity in the portal, save the session, and load sessions. |
System Validation | Shows all system validation errors, can restart instance here, run full system validation, and clear import issues. |
Applications
Manage projects available in the App Store or the Workflow Catalog
Folder Name | Folder Description |
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App Store | Show a list of the pre-built applications already installed from the App Store |
Workflow Catalog | Have easy access buttons so end users can kick off workflows for the portal. |
Designers
Folder Name | Folder Description |
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Agents | This management tool allows communication with a client-server that is secured with a firewall |
Alias | Manage Alias' that were created for Decisions' Entities like workflows. |
Assignments | A folder to manage assignments. |
Catalog | Where visible Decisions elements, actions, steps, controls in the Studio live |
CSS | Can add, update, delete Cascading Styling Sheets that to utilize in the environment via Forms, Pages, etc. |
Data Structure | Stores all data structures and data types that are used in Decisions. |
Debugger | This Folder stores all utilities and helpers that are used in Decisions Debugger. |
Declared Dependency | |
Designer Repository | Utility to manage the Repository server. |
Email Templates | Can add, update, delete Email Templates (styling) applied to instance email notifications. |
Entity Extensions | Create and manage Entityand Folder Actions, and Configurations. |
Images | Stores Images that can be used in Formand Page Designers. |
Lookup Lists and Constants | Set lookup values and global variables so that data that it frequently utilized can be declared and easily accessible to designers |
Report Distribution | Can create custom ways of Report Distribution using Flow Engine. |
Report Output | Contains the subfolders: Handlers and Templates |
Repository | Utility to manage Projects in Repository. |
Restore Points | A folder that stores and manages Restore Points in Decisions. |
Toolbox Customization | Customize the Decisions environment to meet the needs of any organization SOP’s using the same Flow and Rules Designer |
Integration
Set up Integrations to external systems, tokens, and webhooks
Folder Name | Folder Description |
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Databases | No need to use our back-end SQL database. |
External Systems | SOAP, WCF, REST are all configurable to communicate with external applications companies love and rely on |
OAuth | Setup tokens to the applications requiring authorization with this standard. token-based authentication that allows an end user's account information to be used by third-party services without exposing the user's password. Ex: Facebook, Salesforce, Twitter |
Webhooks | Setup and manage real-time calls to other applications. Webhooks are one way that apps can send automated messages or information to other apps, real-time. Also called a web callback or HTTP push API |
Jobs and Events
Folder Name | Folder Description |
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Events | Decisions can trigger flows to kick off based on events, including a failed ping or a new document in a file directory. Contains a report that allows a user to monitor System Events, Check URL Event, Email Event, File Watcher Event, and Ping Failed Event |
Message Queues | It is a queue of messages to be sent between different applications |
Work Queues | Decisions can put work into queues and Decisions servers can work on tasks within those queues |
Scheduled Jobs | Creating and managing processes that should run on the defined schedule. This is a flow that can run a flow on a time interval |
Security
Manage the directory to authenticate Decisions users
Folder Name | Folder Description |
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Accounts | Manage Account information about all Decisions users; including password rests, culture, impersonations, and landing pages |
Groups | Manage groups that accounts can be members of to easily manage permissions throughout the portal and task group members with tasks |
Named Sessions | This is a token-like way to authenticate users and makes it possible to pass in a specific user account when invoking a flow or rule, via REST, without exposing the user account information |
Security Questions | Security questions can be used as an extra level of security when clients need to verify their identity. Can then prompt them for the answer to the question they selected. |
System Data
Folder Name | Folder Description |
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Assignment Priorities | Can set Priority Order for the Assignments or add new Priorities. |
Assignment Roles | Creating and editing specific Assignment Roles for different users and groups. |
Association Types | Edit and Create Association between different Decisions Entities. |
Business Metrics | Add and configure business metrics to be captured in this folder. Business Metrics are quantifiable values that measure the success and efficiency of a given business process. Different process goals call for different metrics to measure their success. |
Chat Messages | Stores Chat messages entities. |
Contact Details | Can create and store Contact Info, create new Contact Types and Contact-Type Priorities. |
Document Type | Can create new Document Types to use in Decisions here. Moreover, can also edit the MIME type of the existing Document types. |
Help | Adding and editing Help Message Keys and Text to use as popup messages in the Decisions on different components of the User Interaction Design. |
ID Generation | Can Manage ID Generation keys that are used as unique keys for Assignments. |
Languages | Add and manage Languages to use in Decisions |
Locations | Add and edit different Locations with different workdays and hours as well as Holidays |
Tags | Stores, adds and edits Tags for Entities in Decisions |
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