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Jitterbit Design Studio

Overview

Jitterbit Design Studio (Design Studio) is Jitterbit's desktop designer for configuring, and testing Jitterbit integration projects. Design Studio is a standalone thick client that can be installed on a Windows or Mac workstation. It simply requires access to the Internet on the workstation or laptop that it runs on.

You can download the latest version through the Harmony portal from the Downloads page.

Another option for project design is to use Integration Studio, our next-generation project designer featuring a modern and collaborative user experience with a web-based UI.

Contact your Customer Success Manager to determine which Studio application best suits your needs for new projects, or to schedule a Readiness Assessment Check for moving existing Design Studio projects to Integration Studio.

Feature summary

Design Studio is entirely wizard-driven, taking you step by step through the creation of data mappings, connectivity, and transformations. The Design Studio features automatic data mapping and enterprise connectors to make connectivity as easy as possible. Complex data models are supported including Salesforce.com and dynamic schemas, as well as connecting to SOAP API, REST API, and cloud-based APIs such as the Salesforce Bulk API.

The user-friendly graphical interface provides multiple tools for easy definition of complex business processes including predefined Formula Builder functions, enhanced scripting and validation tools, chained operations to be sequentially triggered by events in a prior operation, user-defined local variables that run only in real-time operation of a specific process, and predefined global variables that are defined throughout the entire project.

In the design phase, you can test a query or other operation to make sure all components are valid. Or you can actually run the operation, which displays an operations monitor at the bottom of your screen to report start/end times and progress, number of records processed, and success or failure.

Every element you create in Design Studio is defined in metadata. The metadata is deployed to an environment to be stored, and is then managed by the Management Console.

You can navigate the Design Studio user interface by using these components:

Resources

These documentation resources for Design Studio are included in this section:

  • Get Started
    A quick start guide, system requirements, installation instructions, and best practices for using Design Studio.
  • Basics
    An overview of the Design Studio interface and basic tasks such as creating, downloading, and restoring a project.
  • Design
    Documentation on configuring each project item that can be used to design a Design Studio project.
  • How-tos
    A collection of how-tos and design patterns for common integration scenarios using Design Studio.
  • Reference
    Reference information, including troubleshooting information and a collection of Jitterpaks (exported projects) that can be used for reference for creating your own.

Release schedule and release notes

An updated Design Studio installer becomes available from the Downloads page at the conclusion of the Harmony release and Sandbox Cloud Agent Group upgrade following the release schedule.

In the Harmony release notes, Design Studio is included as a separate line item in the release dates table at the top of each release notes page. Individual release notes are listed under the Design Studio heading.