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Setting Visual Properties and Using Your Own Library of Images

For all of Process Developer's activity icons, you can change the font size, colors, borders, and other visual properties.

In addition, you can change the activity icons to impart more meaningful visual representation for the type of process you are building.

You can set defaults for all processes, as described in Layout Preferences, or you can modify visual properties for individual processes and activities.

Here are some examples:

Example 1: Add a border, change font size for an activity

Example 2: Select your own images for activities by setting the Image Location property for each activity

Example 3: Change the link router style from Manhattan to Manual

The manual style draws a straight link, rather than a stair-step style link, and allows you to set the angle for a link transition. A Shortest Path
style link travels around the border of objects to link two activities.

The following table lists the visual properties you can set for various activities. Not all properties apply to all activities.

Property	Description
Background Color	Fill color if the Transparent property is No
Border	Yes/No selection to display a border on a drawing item
Border Color	Opens a dialog for you to choose a basic or custom color for the border of a drawing item.
Expanded	For a container, such as a Scope, a Yes/No display indicating whether the container's contents are displayed or hidden. This setting changes when you select Expand or Collapse from the container's right-mouse menu.
Font	Sets the font to use for label.
Font Color	Sets the color for labels.
Image Display	The image to draw if any
Image Location	Sets the file system location and name of the image file. See the Tips section below for multi-selecting activities to change their images.
Image Text Gap	Select the size for the gap between an activity icon and the label.
Label	Select the display format for an activity label. See Selecting Activity Labels.
Label Alignment	Sets the align text property: left, right, center, top, bottom
Label Placement	For a drawing object, sets the placement of text label relative to image.
Location	Sets the the XY location on the canvas of the object
Orientation	For a container, sets the vertical or horizontal orientation for activities within the sequence.
Primary Alignment	For a Sequence activity, sets the alignment for the group of activities.
Secondary Alignment	For a Sequence activity, sets the alignment position of the activities within the sequence.
Size	Sets the the current size on canvas
Size to Fit	Set to Yes to restrict resizing of the selected drawing object. Select No to permit resizing of the drawing object.
Text	For a drawing object, text label
Transparency Level	For a drawing object, sets the value of transparency. A larger value decreases the transparency.
Transparent	Yes/No setting. If you select No, you can set the Background color.

Tips for setting visual properties:

Set default values in a visual properties file. For details, see Layout Preferences.

For a particular process, to change the image for a group of activities, multi-select the activities and then select the Image Location. For example, select all receives to change the icon for that activity type.

To resize a container activity, such as an if activity, set the Size to Fit option to No.

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