Use it in the Designer

You open the Designer, switch Claude on, and ask for what you want. Every change lands live on the canvas, and nothing is saved until you save.

The four steps

1. Open the Designer on the project, logged in as the Ignition user your API key is bound to.
2. Switch Claude ON in the Claude panel, docked on the right. The panel shows this Designer's id, its start-up self-test results and an activity log. Stop switches Claude off and discards whatever is in flight.
3. Ask the assistant to build. Every change lands live and is one Ctrl+Z step. The main Designer window must have focus for Ctrl+Z to work. Nothing is saved until you press Save.
4. Watch for an outside change. If the panel shows an amber OUTSIDE CHANGE line, run File → Update Project before you save that view.

Outside-change warning

When a project your Designer has open changes on the gateway (a disk edit, an import, a gateway API write), the Claude panel shows an amber warning naming the changed resources.

Update the project before you save

If you save without running File → Update Project, your save overwrites the gateway's copy and the outside change is lost.

If the gateway restarts

If the gateway or the module restarts while a Designer is open, the Designer registers itself again within about 15 seconds, with Claude switched OFF, and says so in the panel. Switch Claude back on to continue.

Reports

Report tools need the Reporting module. It is optional: a Designer without it loads normally and switches only the report features off.

With the Reporting module, the assistant can open and create reports, change the layout, set parameters and data sources, and render preview pages from the Designer's sample data. See Report tools.

Report data sources run on the gateway

A report's data sources run on the gateway when they are set, read or previewed, even before you save. Only the report layout waits for Save.

What is and is not undoable

Change	Undo
Each view change (view_apply operation)	One Ctrl+Z step each
Adding a component at a position other than the end	Two Ctrl+Z steps: the add, then the move into place
Each report layout change (report_apply)	One Ctrl+Z step each
Report parameters and data sources (report_set_data)	Not undoable. It clears the report's undo history and returns the previous configuration.