Accessing and navigating BMC Helix Innovation Studio
The BMC Helix Innovation Studio UI includes the following tabs:
- Workspace—Displays all applications and libraries that are deployed in BMC Helix Innovation Studio.
- Administration—Provides a user interface to manage application or library configurations.
This video (4:54) walks you through the BMC Helix Innovation Studio user interface.
To access BMC Helix Innovation Studio
Click the link to BMC Helix Innovation Studio from your activation email.
After you log in to BMC Helix Innovation Studio, the Workspace page is displayed by default. In BMC Helix Innovation Studio, the main navigation bar appears at the top of each page as shown in the following image:
The following table explains the UI elements on the main navigation bar:
Element name | Description |
|---|---|
Innovation Studio | An application menu that displays a list of applications available in BMC Helix Innovation Studio. By default, Innovation Studio is displayed. To navigate to an application, from the application menu, click the application name. |
Workspace | Displays applications and libraries deployed in BMC Helix Innovation Studio. |
Administration | Displays configuration settings to manage BMC Helix Innovation Studio. |
Notification | Displays all the notifications from an application. |
Customization Layer | Provides the required flexibility to customize out-of-the-box applications by using customization layer. |
Application launcher | Displays list of applications deployed in your environment. |
Signed In As | Displays the user name who has logged in to the product. It also provides an option to view the welcome window. |
My availability | Marks the support staff available for assignments. If the Assignment Availability field is set to Yes, the support staff is marked as available for assignment requests, such as incidents, problems, and change requests. |
Overview of the Workspace page
You can use the Workspace page to define the business logic and rules for your application. The following image highlights the UI elements on the Workspace page:
The following table explains the UI elements on the Workspace tab:
Element name | Description |
|---|---|
All | Displays a list of all the deployed applications and libraries. |
Applications | Displays a list of all the deployed applications. |
Libraries | Displays a list of all the deployed libraries. |
New | Enables you to create new codeless applications and libraries. |
Install | Enables you to deploy your codeless application or library for the first time. |
Overview of the Administration page
You can use the configuration settings on the Administration page to manage BMC Helix Innovation Studio.
The following image highlights the configuration settings on the Administration page:
Overview of an application or a library page
From Workspace, you can open any application or library. On the application or library details page, you can view and customize the definitions by using different designers, as highlighted in the following image:
The following table explains the designer tabs displayed on an application or a library details page:
Designer tab name | Description |
|---|---|
Records | Enables you to access the record definition designer where you can perform the following activities:
Record definitions contain specific fields that store the data required for building an application for your business process. For more information, see Defining-record-definitions-to-store-and-manage-data. |
Views | Enables you to access the view definition designer where you can perform the following activities:
View definitions are a graphical representation of your application UI. For more information, see Defining-the-user-interface-through-view-definitions. |
Processes | Enables you to access the process definition designer where you can perform the following activities:
Process definitions are a graphical representation of your application business logic. For more information about the process designer, see Process-designer-interface. |
Rules | Enables you to access the rule definition designer where you can perform the following activities:
Rules are graphical representations of conditions that validate the data of your application. For more information, see Rule-designer-interface. |
Associations | Enables you to access the association definition designer where you can create relationships between record definitions. Associations are different types of relationships between record definitions that enable you to use fields from one record definition to another record definition. For more information, see Creating-record-associations. |
Named Lists | Enables you to access the named list definition designer where you can customize a list of name-value pairs used in a drop-down menu of your application. Named lists are drop-down menus that make data entry faster in your application. For more information about named lists, see Facilitating-data-entry-through-named-lists. |
Documents | Enables you to access the document definition designer where you can create or modify document definitions. Document definitions are schemas with fields defined in JSON format. A document definition enables you to access individual attributes within a metadata object and use the attributes in a process. For more information, see Defining-a-document-schema. |
Chatbots | Enables you to access the chatbot definition designer where you can create and configure single or multiple chatbots. Chatbot definitions contain settings such as supported chat channels, skinning and branding, and search provider for each chatbot in your application. For more information about chatbots, see BMC Helix Virtual Agent. |
Web APIs | Enables you to access the Web API definition designer where you can create or edit Web API definitions. Web APIs are REST API web requests used to connect to RESTful services in a codeless way. For more information, see Creating-a-REST-API-web-service-request-definition. |
Events | Enables you to access the event definition designer where you create or modify events and their attributes. Event definitions are application events and their attributes that you can track to derive the application usage metrics. For more information about application events, see Tracking-application-usage-and-generating-reports. |
Event Statistics | Enables you to access the event statistics definition designer where you can create or modify event statistics definitions. Event statistics definitions are the frequencies at which you want to track the event data and to group the event data to derive consolidated metrics. For more information about event statistics, see Tracking-application-usage-and-generating-reports. |
Configurations | Enables you to access the configuration definition designer where you can specify configuration settings and functions for your application. Configuration definitions are application settings that you can specify to be displayed on the Administration tab. |