The Designer can be started in one of several ways. Start the Designer by clicking ‘InstantAtlas Desktop Edition’, ‘InstantAtlas Designer’ in the Windows Start menu or by clicking the ‘InstantAtlas Designer’ icon on your desktop. If you chose not to create shortcuts during installation of the software, browse to the ‘InstantAtlasDesigner.exe’ file (by default this will have been installed in C:\Program Files\EsriUK\InstantAtlas) and double click it. The Designer will open with a blank canvas and you will then be able to open the configuration file of your report.

Alternatively you can browse to the output folder of a published report, right-click on the configuration file (called config.xml) and choose the ‘Open with InstantAtlas Designer’ option.