What's Good About ADW’s Flow Manager? Check out the 16.5 Release and See!

The 16.5 Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) Flow Manager has been enhanced to provide a more flexible and robust designer experience. It can now be launched in a stand-alone mode, is faster in launching, can open multiple flows, and you can customize it by adding new buttons!

Read on for more details …

Here’s a screenshot of the new Flow Manager:

You can open the last project, and select from a list of last used design or library projects:

There are project type icons show in the list:

Tabs are available to indicate multiple open projects:

Message Manager

A new messaging system is available to communicate at the company, site, or team levels. The Administrator can construct/edit/view all messages, and all others can view messages. These messages are all viewed from within the Flow Manager. When a new message arrives, the message button will highlight and you can view the new message:

Here are all the options (from sorting, selecting message has been read, etc.) available:

Here are the authoring options available for the Administrator:

Flow Manager New Features

You can now track your progress of steps through the flow:
–    Completing a step automatically moves focus to next step
–    Step status automatically set to “inprogress” when an activity is detected (button pushed or checklist unchecked)
–    Step is automatically marked complete when checklist is complete
–    Checklists can be order-dependent (if one checklist item is unchecked – all remaining items uncheck)

As always, please share your experiences in utilizing these new capabilities.

Jerry “GenPart” Grzenia