This chapter explains how to install the Layout Designer. To learn to how use the Layout Designer, refer to the online help or click .
The Layout Designer provides the ability to customize forms within the application. Custom property-editor forms can be used for any item-type to show custom properties, hide default properties that are not of interest to your organization, or rearrange the interface to more closely meet your organization’s requirements.
For example, you can design a Change Request Properties dialog box that has custom fields on its first (or perhaps only) tab. You usually install the Layout Designer on workstations of administrators who will design custom property editors.
Only in the StarTeam Web Client, Property editors designed with Layout Designer can be used with the custom workflow rules created with StarTeam Workflow Designer (for StarTeam Enterprise Advantage). In the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client, Layout Designer forms only arrange properties for the user's convenience. APEs are written to support the workflow rules. For more information about APEs, see the Workflow Extensions Guide that installs with StarTeam Workflow Designer.