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Getting Started
Install Spectrum Enterprise Designer and learn about creating dataflows.
Starting Spectrum Enterprise Designer

Welcome
Use workflows to perform tasks that integrate Spectrum Technology Platform, applications, and content repositories into business processes.
Getting Started
Install Spectrum Enterprise Designer and learn about creating dataflows.
- Installing the Client Tools
  The Spectrum Technology Platform client tools are applications that you use to administer your server and design and run dataflows and process flows. You must install your Spectrum Technology Platform server before installing the client tools.
- Starting Spectrum Enterprise Designer
- A First Look at Spectrum Enterprise Designer
- My First Dataflow (Job)
- My First Dataflow (Service)
- Dataflow Templates
- Importing and Exporting Dataflows
Designing a Flow
Design, create, run, and manage dataflows. Find reference information here for both control and module stages.
Inspecting and Testing
Check and test flows.
Running a Flow
Configure runtime options, expose services, and run flows in a production environment.
Combining Flows into a Process Flow
Combine separate flows into a single process and run external applications.
Creating Reusable Flow Components
Create subflows that can be reused in other dataflows.
Sample Flows
An example shows how a flow is applied to a real world problem.
About Spectrum Technology Platform
An overview of Spectrum, its data management architecture, its platform architecture, and its modules and components.

Starting Spectrum Enterprise Designer

Spectrum Enterprise Designer is a Windows application for creating dataflows. To start Spectrum Enterprise Designer:

Select Start > Precisely > Spectrum Enterprise Designer.
Enter the server name or IP address, or select it from the drop-down list. If you are using Spectrum Technology Platform in a cluster, enter the name of IP address of the cluster's load balancer.
Enter your user name and password.
In the Port field, enter the network port that the server has been configured to use for Spectrum Technology Platform communication. The default port number is 8080.
Click Use secure connection if you want communication between the client and the server to take place over an HTTPS connection.

Note: A secure connection is only available if HTTPS communication has been configured on the server. If you are running Spectrum Enterprise Designer on Windows 7, using the IP address in the Server name field may not work, depending on the type of certificate used to secure the communication between Spectrum Enterprise Designer and the server. If the IP address does not work, use the host name instead.
Click Login.