Welcome
Using the UI
The UI is the HCL Universal Orchestrator interface, from which you can design your scheduling environment and monitor every process.
Designing on the UI
The Graphical Designer presents drag and drop functionalities that enable you to add elements from a palette to a canvas workspace.
Library overview
The Library is a database-first exploration area in the Design section of the UI that enables you to browse, search, create, edit, and manage all item definitions without rendering a visual canvas.
Opening definitions in a canvas workspace
Use the Library context menu to open a workflow or task definition in the Graphical Designer for visual editing, dependency mapping, and canvas-based design work.

What's new
The What's new section tracks the capabilities delivered across each HCL Universal Orchestrator release, organized by version, so you can navigate directly to the features relevant to your deployment.
Getting started with HCL Universal Orchestrator
HCL Universal Orchestrator is a cloud-native workload orchestration and scheduling platform built on Kubernetes. Its microservices-based architecture enables the centralized orchestration of multi-cloud and hybrid environments from a single point of control.
Deploying and Administrating
Deploy, connect, and administer HCL Universal Orchestrator on your own infrastructure, or start immediately with a hosted SaaS environment where the service provider manages all platform operations.
Administering multitenancy
Configure and administer a HCL Universal Orchestrator multitenant environment.
Using the UI
The UI is the HCL Universal Orchestrator interface, from which you can design your scheduling environment and monitor every process.
- Getting started with the UI
  Start your experience on the HCL Universal Orchestrator UI.
- Managing settings
  You can manage user, system and security settings from the UI.
- Designing on the UI
  The Graphical Designer presents drag and drop functionalities that enable you to add elements from a palette to a canvas workspace.
  - Managing your workspaces
    The workspace is the canvas on which you can design your automation visually.
  - Using the palette
    In the palette you can find everything you need to create and deploy functioning workflows.
  - Run cycle preview
    The run cycle preview provides a graphical representation of the run instances generated by the run cycle rules for a workflow or run cycle group, on a full year basis.
  - Using the dynamic search for remote assets
    Use the dynamic search in the Graphical Designer to query remote systems, select assets, and automatically populate your task definitions.
  - Library overview
    The Library is a database-first exploration area in the Design section of the UI that enables you to browse, search, create, edit, and manage all item definitions without rendering a visual canvas.
    - Navigating and searching the Library
      The Library provides a folder tree, breadcrumb trail, category accordions, a search bar, and a Recent activity feed to locate and filter item definitions across your automation environment.
    - Managing definitions from the Library
      In the Library, you can create, edit, run, duplicate, delete, and toggle the draft status of item definitions, and organize them in folders — all without opening a canvas workspace.
    - Bulk actions and permissions
      In the Library, you can select multiple item definitions across categories, and the action bar dynamically shows only the operations applicable to all selected items — with ACL-restricted items identified before any action runs.
    - Opening definitions in a canvas workspace
      Use the Library context menu to open a workflow or task definition in the Graphical Designer for visual editing, dependency mapping, and canvas-based design work.
- Introducing the Orchestration Monitor
  The Orchestration Monitor gives you a real-time view of Workstations, workflows, tasks, event sources, resources, and endpoints, including graphical flowcharts that help you follow statuses and dependencies.
Orchestrating
Orchestrate anything with HCL Universal Orchestrator.
Orchestrating from Mobile
You can use your mobile devices to manage quickly and easily your whole HCL Universal Orchestrator environment.
Monitoring
Take your environment under control.
Using REST API
Use REST APIs to easily integrate workload scheduling capabilities with external products and solutions.
Uno AI Pilot
Welcome to the HCL Universal Orchestrator AI Pilot documentation. This resource is designed to guide you through everything you need to know about using UnO AI Pilot effectively. You will find detailed instructions, feature overviews, and helpful tips to ensure you get the best experience with UnO AI Pilot.
UnO Agentic AI Builder
Troubleshooting
Recover your environment if any issue occurs.
Notices

v2.1.7+Opening definitions in a canvas workspace

Use the Library context menu to open a workflow or task definition in the Graphical Designer for visual editing, dependency mapping, and canvas-based design work.

Before you begin

To open a definition in a canvas workspace, you must have at least view access to the item and the permissions required to create a new workspace.

Procedure

In the UI, select Design, and then select the Library tab.
Navigate to the folder containing the workflow or task definition you want to open.
Right-click the definition and select Open in canvas from the context menu.
A new canvas workspace opens in the Graphical Designer with the selected definition loaded. The Library view remains available through the Library tab.

Results

The definition is loaded into a newly created workspace. You can now edit it visually, add dependencies, adjust layout, and deploy changes from the canvas.

What to do next

Open in canvas always creates a new workspace. Targeting an existing active workspace is not supported — to merge Library changes into an open workspace, use the Workspace Merge function after saving your edits to the database. For details, see Managing your workspaces.