Opening the Workspace Application In General Interface Builder

This topic describes how to open the Workspace application in TIBCO General Interface Builder so that layout and component changes can be made.

For information about customizing the application using components, see the TIBCO Workspace Components Developer Guide.

Procedure

  1. Install TIBCO Business Studio. Ensure that the “Workspace Client Components” feature is selected and installed. (You must use the version of TIBCO Business Studio that targets the version of TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM you are using.)
  2. Start General Interface Builder and create a workspace if you haven’t created one yet (the General Interface workspace must be set to the directory that contains the GI_Builder.html file, as shown below).

    General Interface Builder can be started by executing the following: 

       StudioHome\wcc\version\GI_Builder.html

    where:

    • StudioHome is the directory in which TIBCO Business Studio was installed.
    • version is the version number of Workspace that was installed with TIBCO Business Studio.

      For more information about starting General Interface Builder and creating workspaces, see the “Starting TIBCO General Interface Builder” section in TIBCO General Interface Getting Started.

  3. From the Project menu in General Interface Builder, select User Projects > workspace.

    This opens the General Interface project in which the Workspace application was built.

  4. From the File menu, select Open.
  5. From the Open Files dialog, drill down to workspace > application > prototypes.

    The Open Files dialog will now list the available prototypes in the Workspace application:

  6. Open the appropriate prototype to customize the desired part of the Workspace application. For instance, opening AppLayout.xml, allows you to customize the main layout of the application, opening Login.xml allows you to customize the Login dialog, etc.