Using the LogicNets Designer via an External Workspace Management System

All of the LogicNets Designer features are available when you are using it through an External Workspace Management System, with a few exceptions highlighted below.

Basic Functionality

Opening and Closing the Designer

Creating a new LogicNets project and opening an existing project are both tasks initiated in your Document Management System. Check the appropriate user manual of the DMS for instructions on how to open or create a LogicNets project. 

When the DMS opens the LogicNets project the LogicNets Designer starts loading the project(s) from the DMS. The system displays a progress bar. 

When the projects are loaded the Designer application is started, and in the DMS mode a ‘Save’ and ‘Cancel’ button will appear.

When the cancel button is used nothing is saved back to the DMS-system. The LogicNets Designer is closed and a page is shown to close the browser-tab (this page is shown since most browser-versions do not allow closing a browser-tab automatically).

When the save-button is used the projects are saved back to the DMS-system, the LogicNets Designer will be closed and a page is shown to close the browser-tab. 

Troubleshooting the DMS-to-LogicNets Connection

Designer is Not Closed Properly

During the loading of projects an error page will be shown when the LogicNets Designer is started with a DMS-session-id that has been used previously and if the previous LogicNets Designer session wasn’t closed properly (using the ‘Save’ or ‘Cancel’ button).

When the “Cancel”-button is pressed the loading of projects is aborted and a page is shown to close the browser-tab. If the “Continue previous session”-button is used the projects are not reloaded from the DMS, but the LogicNets Designer is started with the previous state of the projects (as last known and stored by LogicNets). The Reload-button will reload the projects from the DMS and starts the LogicNets Designer.

The Loaded Projects are Corrupt

An error message will be shown when the DMS returns corrupt projects. The LogicNets Designer cannot be started.

Connect Setup to the DMS Web Service Failed

An error message is shown in case an error occurred during the connection-setup to the DMS. In most cases this error is caused by a misconfiguration of the DMS connection. In all these cases you must connect your system-administrator for further information and help.

The most common error messages are below:

Error Message	Description
Unknown connect error.	The host can be reached, but the socket on the DMS is not opened for receiving a connection.
Cannot connect.	The DMS hostname is not correctly configured in case HTTPS is used.
Host not found.	The DMS hostname is not correctly configured in case HTTP is used.
Error initializing locations.	Path to HTTPS server certificate is not valid or the certificates in that configured path are not valid.
Unable to get local issuer certificate.	The server certificate cannot be validated. Please check whether all certificates in the server certificate chain are saved in the configured certificate file.
Could not set client certificate key.	The configured client certificate private key is corrupt or the private key does not belong to the configured client certificate.
Failed to set client certificate.	The configured client certificate is corrupt.
HTTP Error 403.16 - Forbidden	Your client certificate is either not trusted or is invalid.

Designer Functionality

Tree

The Designer shows a file and folder-tree in the left panel. This tree shows all the projects existing in the workspace. (Note that compared to the standalone Designer, this workspace does not allow the user to create, add or delete projects. It is also not possible to create folders in the root of the tree. 

The DMS can mark one or more projects as read-only. In that case read-only folders and files (logicnets, data-table and other resources) cannot be edited and the name of the files and folders are greyed out.

It is not possible to paste, paste-link or create new files or folders in a read-only project. However, it is possible to copy a file or folder from the read-only project to a non-read-only project. 

In case a file or folder is copy-paste-linked from a read-only project to a non-read-only-project, the file or folder is also marked as read-only in the destination project.

Project Properties

In the DMS-connected Designer it is not possible to change the title or version of a project. This is true for both editable and non-read-only-projects. The project title and version is created and maintained by the DMS system. If the DMS system updates the title or version then the title and version will be updated in the LogicNets Designer too during the loading of the projects.

LogicNets Designer Tab

The LogicNets Designer tab behaves differently for read-only logicnets. All menu buttons on the top are shown as disabled and the context menu (accessible via right-mouse-click) is not available.

Node and Part Details

It is possible view node and part parameters of nodes in a read-only logicnet. However, it is not possible to change any of the parameters.