Designer Support
MDW Designer
MDW Designer is the legacy design tool for creating and editing workflow processes.
MDW 6.x
- Designer is deprecated for MDW 6.x projects. It is no longer being maintained. Please use MDW Studio.
- For MDW builds 6.1.23 and greater, Designer is not only deprecated but unsupported. There are a number of reasons
why Designer won’t work correctly with recent versions of MDW:
- The asset Archive directory created by Designer will cause runtime asset version conflicts.
- YAML-format process definitions cannot be read by Designer.
- The dynamic Java activity class name saved by Designer is not compatible with MDWHub and MDW Studio.
- Designer cannot handle expressions for activity attribute values.
- Annotation-based activities are not available in the Designer toolbox and cannot be viewed on the design canvas.
- The MDW vercheck facility is not available in Designer, which can lead to asset import conflicts.
MDW 5.x and earlier
- Continue to use Designer until your project can be upgraded to MDW 6.
- Legacy Designer User Guide.