Introduction to Workspaces
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Overview
Workspaces is your entry point to the Unqork Designer Platform. The Workspaces page lets you create workspaces to group and organize all your applications and app elements. This organization lets you easily find all your modules, workflows, or reference data.
What You'll Learn
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About Workspaces
NOTE You’ll see the terms app and application used throughout Workspaces. Both words refer to an Unqork application.
Workspaces is your entry point to the Unqork Designer Platform. Unqork Workspaces lets you group and organize all your applications and app elements. This organization lets you easily find all your modules, workflows, or reference data.
Workspaces makes collaboration easy. You can share modules and reference data across workspaces and applications. You can also mark these elements as shared so your collaborators know the elements are in use by multiple apps.
TIP To learn more about shared Library Elements, see our Unqork Library Elements article.
WARNING Users assigned to other workspaces can update or access sharedmodules and reference data.
Workspaces Levels
The architecture of Workspaces consists of four levels:
- Environment Level: The Environment Level is the highest level in the architecture and is where your workspaces exist.
- Workspace Level: At the Workspace Level, you can access any applications that are part of that workspace.
- Application Level: The Application Level is where you access the app elements in your application. You'll see the number of App and Library Elements associated with that application.
- Application Element Level: App elements are modules, workflows, and reference data. The App Element Level is where you edit a module, workflow, or data collection.
Here's a high-level overview of the layout of Workspaces:
Workspaces Terms
Here are some key terms and concepts for Workspaces:
Term |
Description |
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Workspaces |
The name of Unqork's approach to building applications. For example, logging into the Workspaces page of your environment. |
workspace |
The container where creators can group applications and shared elements. You can have a collaborative workspace for a team,or create a personal workspace. |
App Element |
An element used when building an application. Modules, workflows, and reference data are all app elements. |
Library Elements |
App elements available (shared) across a level. Library Elements at the Environment Level are available to all workspaces. Library Elements at the Workspace Level are available to applications in that workspace. You can connect Library Elements to any of your applications. |
Environment Stage |
Environment stages (or levels) support each phase of building and rendering applications. Generally, there are three environmental stages for each environment:
Some applications move through five environment stages. These additional environment stages include dedicated QA (Quality Assurance) and Pre-production stages. In place of dedicated QA environment stages, many teams use the UAT or Customer Staging level. |
Navigating Your Company Environment
When you log in to the Unqork Designer Platform, Workspaces is your environment's Environment Level default page. Use this page to create workspaces to group applications and collaborate with your team. Each workspace displays as a tile and lists the apps you added to it.
Here's a preview of an active Environment Level:
Below is a description of links and drop-downs:
Attribute | Description | |
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1 |
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Global Search lets you search your company environment at any time, from any navigation level. You can search for workspaces, apps, and app elements. You'll find the Search field at the top right of the page. You must enter at least three characters for results to display. |
2 |
Workspaces |
This is your default landing page where you'll organize and build applications. You'll also organize and manage your app elements in Workspaces. App elements are modules, workflows, and reference data. |
3 |
Library ▾ |
This drop-down lets you view shared Library Elements and Marketplace snippets and templates.
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4 |
Marketplace |
Takes you to the Unqork Marketplace. The marketplace offers application blueprints in preconfigured packages, including assets that knock out common configurations all applications need. |
5 |
Help |
This link takes you to our Documentation Hub. You can browse documentation to learn more about Unqork, Administration, Workspaces, Release Notes, and more. TIP The Documentation Hub is our resource center where you can search all our documentation by topic. Unqork Academy is where you'll find structured, sequential learning. |
6 |
Settings ▾ |
This drop-down opens the following options:
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7 |
+ Create Workspace |
Clicking this button creates a new workspace. You can have a collaborative workspace for a team or create a personal workspace. |
8 |
Recently Modified |
Choosing a drop-down option arranges your workspaces, apps, or app elements. You can arrange by Recently Modified, Least Recently Modified, Newest, and Oldest. You can also sort in ascending order (A to Z) or descending order (Z to A). |
9 |
Default Workspace |
All new environments come with a prebuilt Default Workspace. This workspace holds all applications until you assign them to a workspace. By default, you cannot remove the Default Workspace. |
10 |
Workspace Tiles |
Each workspace has its own tile. Workspace tiles contain the following:
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The WSRBAC (Workspaces Role-Based Access Control) icon indicates how many users can access the workspace. TIP To learn more about WSRBAC, see our Workspaces Role-Based Access Control (WSRBAC) article. |
12 |
... (Ellipsis) |
Clicking the ... (ellipsis) button in the banner at the top of the tile displays the following options:
TIP To learn more about WSRBAC, see our Workspaces Role-Based Access Control (WSRBAC) article.
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13 |
Create App |
Clicking this button lets you create a new module or workflow-type app in your workspace. |
14 |
Apps |
The total number of applications in the workspace. |
15 |
View Workspace |
Opens the workspace. |
NOTE You'll learn more about each of these navigation pages in future articles. For now, let's focus on the Workspaces page.
Submitting Feedback
As you navigate the new Workspaces view, you see a icon at the bottom-right corner of your page. Clicking this icon opens a feedback modal A modal is a window that appears on top of the content you are currently viewing.. If at any time you notice an issue or have an idea for an enhancement, submit your feedback using the modal. We're always striving to improve our platform.
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