Designer canvas

This topic describes the appearance and contents of the designer canvas.

The designer canvas is a part of the Nintex Workflow designer used to create and update workflows. The designer canvas contains the following items.

Note: A "development" watermark appears on the designer canvas for development workflows. For more information, see Assign use when publishing workflows and forms.

  • Start point: Indicates where processing begins for the workflow.
  • Actions: Workflow actions that have been added to the workflow. Actions exhibit unique appearance and behavior, and each action has a context menu.

    For more information, see Action and Action context menus.

  • Drop zone: Indicates a location where a workflow action can be added. Each drop zone has a context menu.

    For more information, see Drop zone context menu.

  • End point: Indicates where processing ends for the workflow.