The Draft Artifacts widget

Use the Draft Artifacts widget to select and view project elements or images that are currently under review.

The draft artifacts widget with areas of interest.

You use the Draft Artifacts widget with the Comments widget. In a typical usage scenario, you select a process (or another form of information) from the Publisher Navigator, examine it in the Process Viewer, and use the Comments widget to comment on specific areas of it.

There are two main types of information that can be viewed in this widget: diagrams and text. Diagrams are displayed visually, and text-based information is disclosed as associated properties and attributes.

The following kinds of information are displayed as diagrams:
The following kinds of information are displayed as text:
The Draft Artifacts widget includes the following sections:
  1. Publisher Navigator
    The Publisher Navigator uses a tree format to display all of the artifacts that are available for comment. To view an artifact, expand the nodes on the list and click the name of an artifact. The artifact is displayed in the Process Viewer.
    To refine the choices, choose between a long list (Full The Full mode icon) or a filtered list (Simplified The simplified mode icon) by clicking the appropriate icon.
      Draft Projects This folder embeds all of the draft project elements as exported from WebSphere Business Modeler.
      Imported Images This folder holds the imported form and WebSphere Business Monitor dashboard images. You can also create folders and add images to these folders.
    The comment icon. Comment icon This icon indicates that the associated element, or one or more of its children nodes, has at least one comment.
    The attachment icon. Attachment icon This icon indicates that the element, or one of its children, has a file that was attached in WebSphere Business Modeler.
    If a catalog contains elements that you do not have the necessary access rights to view, the catalog contains a node called Additional nodes, which is access controlled. This node contains one or more catalogs or elements. To check whether you should have access to these catalogs or elements, contact your publishing server administrator.
  2. Process Viewer
    The Process Viewer displays the information that contains the elements on which you will be able to comment.
    To move the diagram around within the viewer, click the diagram anywhere in the viewing area, and drag it.
    To use the entire widget to display the diagram, click < Hide Project. This will conceal the Publisher Navigator, and use the whole widget to display the diagram. To reveal navigation that has been hidden, click > Show Project.
  3. Control panel
    To modify the way the diagram is displayed in the viewer, configure the settings on the control panel.
    The control panel

    To shift the diagram in the viewer, click on the appropriate direction arrow on the control panel. The diagram will move in the direction chosen.

    To return to the diagram's start node in the Process Viewer, click the central green circle.

    To change the magnification of the diagram in the Process Viewer, adjust the slider accordingly. When the indicator is closer to the top, the magnification level is greater.

  4. Action Bar
    The action bar appears when you hover over one of the elements in the Process viewer, and displays the name of that element. Using the action bar, you can create a comment or see the properties associated with the element.
  5. Comment indicator
    Clicking the comment indicator icon shows the elements that have comments associated with them, and displays the number of comments.
    You can interact with the indicator as follows:
    • To launch a small window that shows a list of the subject lines of each of the comments that are associated with the element, click the comment indicator. To view the complete comment, click a subject line.
    • To add a new comment, click the plus icon (The plus icon.).
  6. Overview
    The overview shows a miniaturized version of the overall diagram with a blue box inside to show the part of the diagram that is currently displayed in the Process Viewer.
    To move the diagram in the viewer using the overview, click and drag the blue box.
    To adjust the magnification of the diagram in the viewer using the overview, click the handle on the corner of the blue box and adjust the size accordingly. The diagram in the Process Viewer adjusts automatically to match the overview.