General Properties

The General tab of both the Multi-Step Sensor and Simple Sensor, contains the following properties:

Name

A title containing the words visible to end users in the Studio catalog and search results.

Description

A written representation of the purpose of the sensor, or any helpful descriptions to differentiate one sensor from another.

This is not visible to anyone other than the user editing the sensor.

Status

The status of a sensor is a label that indicates which publishing stage it is up to. The status indicates if the sensor has been tested, approved, and is ready to be published.

Studio offers five status labels you can use to establish a publishing process to suit the work process in your organization. The available status labels are:

  • Draft: The sensor is incomplete and needs to be run, further edited, or tested. This is the default status of a new wizard.

  • Pending Approval: The sensor is edited and pending approval in order to be published.

  • Published: The sensor is completed and approved.

The sensor needs to have a Published status in order for it to run.

  • Inactive: The sensor should not be published and is not active.

  • Faulty: The sensor does not work properly and needs to be fixed.

When Faulty is selected, the Faulty description field is enabled

Applications

A list of supported applications on which the sensor can place bubbles.

Applications are managed in the Admin Tool Tool.

In the Admin Tool, only the Catalog can be managed, not the sensors themselves. Those are created and managed in the Studio Sensor Catalog

To manage Applications in the Admin Tool Tool:

  1. Access the Admin Tool Tool (See here for instructions)

  2. Select Applications from the lower left corner

  3. The Applications list opens

  4. You can now:

    1. Add/Remove applications

    2. Edit existing applications

Starts when

You can choose whether the bubble is placed when:

  • The application is opened -or-

  • The window is opened

By selecting Window is open, additional window data options are enabled:

To get specific window properties from within an application:

This option is only available when Starts when: Window is open option is selected.

  1. Select Get window properties... from near the Starts when drop-down.

  2. The Get window properties... dialog box opens.

  3. Select a window and click OK.

  4. The window's properties are displayed.

Priority (CHECK THIS INFO and get image)

Set the sensor priority to ensure that business, or time-critical tasks, are handled before other tasks.

When sensors are created or modified, you can set the sensor Priority as Low, Normal, or High.

Start Date

Determines the date and time when the sensor will be executed.

End Date

Determines the date and time when the sensor will conclude.

Time Range

Determines the time-frame in which the sensor will be active.

Recurrence

Determines whether the sensor is executed every time, or at specific intervals.

By selecting Every Time, 3 additional options are enabled:

  • End after 1 occurrence

    • Number of occurrences can be changed

  • Disable this sensor when wizard runs

  • Allow the user to dismiss this sensor from the 1 occurrence

    • Number of occurrences can be changed

When the General tab is complete, continue on to the Bubble tab.