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Application Editor Navigation

Application Editor is accessed by clicking the Application Editor tab in the main CA WCC page. The Application Editor page contains two sections: Flow and Properties. Initially, only the Flow section is displayed. If you select to edit a job, a page navigation link lets you quickly move from the Flow section to the Properties section.

Notes:

• Access to Application Editor is controlled through the ApplicationAccess resource in CA EEM.
• The Properties section appears when you right-click a job object in the Graph and select Edit.

  Note: If the job has an error condition, an error message opens and the display does not automatically scroll down to the Properties section. You can manually scroll down to the Properties section and correct the error.

The Flow section consists of the following panes:

• The upper left pane is the Palette, which lists object types that you can add to the job flow.
• The lower left pane is the Overview, which displays a thumbnail view of all of the jobs and dependencies imported into Application Editor.
• The left pane also contains the Delete List section which displays a list of the jobs selected for deletion.
• The center pane is the Graph, which graphically displays an editable view of the jobs and dependencies that you imported into Application Editor or manually added when you started a new flow, or that were displayed previously in the Application Editor.
  • You can define the conditions required to run a job by dragging objects from the Palette and dropping them onto the Graph. Job properties and dependencies can be edited, and multiple changes can be committed to the server you select in a single operation.
  • If you save object property and job flow changes before you leave Application Editor and close CA WCC, you can redisplay the job flow that was displayed when you left by selecting Load Flow from the drop-down list the next time you start and log in to CA WCC, and access Application Editor.
  • If some objects in the imported job flows are not visible in the Graph, the boundary box in the Overview pane can be dragged to display them in the Graph.
• The right pane consists of the SAP filters sections. SAP drag and drop functionality lets you use an SAP job that exists on an SAP server as a template to create a new SAP job, and is implemented by the SAP Filters and SAP Filter Results panes. The SAP Filters and SAP Filter Results panes are displayed by default when you select any one or all of the following job types in the Customize dialog: SAP R/3, SAP Batch Input Session, SAP BW Process Chain, or SAP BW InfoPackage. The SAP Filters pane contains filters with SAP job properties which you can use to search for jobs on an SAP server. The SAP Filter Results pane contains the search results. You can drag a job from the search results into the job flow to create a new SAP job, modify the job properties, and then commit the job flow to create the new job on the specified CA Workload Automation AE server.
• The Properties section lets you edit the properties of the job that has been imported or added to the job flow, and appears when you right-click the job and select Edit. When you add a job to the Graph, it is displayed with a red border and an asterisk (*) next to its name, indicating that a required property is missing.

Note: If the icon of a dependent job shown in the Graph contains a question mark (?), the job cannot be edited in Application Editor.