{"id":4901,"date":"2015-08-28T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/dashboard-builder-desktop\/desktop-user-guide\/the-instantatlas-designer\/starting-the-designer\/"},"modified":"2020-11-19T21:44:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:44:03","slug":"starting-the-designer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/en\/welcome\/desktop-user-guide\/the-instantatlas-designer\/starting-the-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting the Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Designer can be started in one of several ways. Start the Designer by clicking \u2018InstantAtlas Desktop Edition\u2019, \u2018InstantAtlas Designer\u2019 in the Windows Start menu or by clicking the \u2018InstantAtlas Designer\u2019 icon on your desktop. If you chose not to create shortcuts during installation of the software, browse to the \u2018InstantAtlasDesigner.exe\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively you can browse to the output folder of a published report, right-click on the configuration file (called config.xml) and choose the \u2018Open with InstantAtlas Designer\u2019 option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Designer can be started in one of several ways. Start the Designer by clicking \u2018InstantAtlas Desktop Edition\u2019, \u2018InstantAtlas Designer\u2019 in the Windows Start menu or by clicking the \u2018InstantAtlas Designer\u2019 icon on your desktop. If you chose not to create shortcuts during installation of the software, browse to the \u2018InstantAtlasDesigner.exe\u2019 file (by default this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/en\/welcome\/desktop-user-guide\/the-instantatlas-designer\/starting-the-designer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starting the Designer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":4871,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4901","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4901\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/instantatlas-desktop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}