Designer has a host of tools to help you accelerate building, testing, and deploying your project. Let's talk about a few here.
In addition to all the panels available in the Designer workspace, there is also a Tools menu to help you create your projects.
- Console - used to test and debug Python scripts.
- Image Management - manages and stores images used for your projects.
- Symbol Factory - (separate module) contains a variety of high quality vector graphics symbols that can bring your projects to life.

Previewing the Project
Designer provides the capability to preview, test, and interact with the screens and functionality before you deploy your project. The Designer workspace operates in two distinct modes: design mode and preview mode. Designers can easily switch between these modes to make sure their project is working as expected during the course of development. Simply select Project > Preview Mode to test and interact with the functionality of your project.

Find and Replace
The Find and Replace is a handy tool in the Designer workspace. You can search your entire project for specific components, properties, scripts, and more. You can even use the replace command to make mass changes expeditiously to a project with very little effort.

Query Browser
The Database Query Browser is a very convenient tool that lets you make simple edits in a database table, and interact with all of the databases that Ignition is connected to (i.e., running queries, browsing tables and schemas). It is very common during the course of project design to inspect the database directly, or to experiment with a SQL query to get it just right.

Keyboard Shortcuts
There are a lot of ways to speed up your development once you are familiar with how Ignition works. There are many keyboard shortcuts in Designer that are listed throughout the Designer interface alongside menu options.
