Design Actions

To see available design actions, first click it to highlight in green.

For convenience, the Open button is most prominent, as it is the most commonly used action.

However, you can also click the More drop-down to see other available actions.

The other available actions include the following:

• Reassign: This allows you to assign the design to a different designer in your company. It does not advance the design either “up” or “down” in your company’s workflow. It is a lateral movement to another designer. The recipient receives the design, all of its metadata, and all of its current design work.

  IMPORTANT: Reassign is available while the design is in a design state (also known as a draw state). Reassign is not available if a design is in an approval state.

• Rename: This allows you to type a new name for the design. It does not change the name of the Work Request. If there are multiple designs within the same Work Request, each design must have a unique name.

• Move: This allows you to move the design into a different Work Request. Along the same lines, it allows you to move a local design (a design you created within the application that currently does not have a Work Request) into an existing Work Request.

  • Once you click Move, a dialog appears allowing you to search and select the appropriate Work Request.

  • If the design is currently Selected, it cannot be moved. First, select a different design within the same Work Request. This “unlocks” the Move action, and then you can move the design to a different Work Request.

• Select Design: This action is only applicable when you have more than one design within a Work Request. If you have a few design alternatives within the same Work Request, you select the recommended or final design before pushing the Work Request to the next step in your company’s workflow. Depending on your company’s workflow, the “non-selected” designs might or might not be sent. If you are using the application’s out-of-the-box approval workflow, the other non-selected designs are sent along with the selected design. In other words, the approval officer receives not only the design you selected but also the alternatives. At that point, the approval office can determine which design to push all the way to your company’s GIS. See the Example Workflow for Design Alternatives for more information.

• Delete: This permanently deletes the design. There is not an undo for this action. You receive a confirmation message before deletion.

  • If the design is currently Selected, it cannot be deleted. First, select a different design within the same Work Request. This “unlocks” the Delete action, and then you can delete the design.