Importing and exporting process applications from the Process Center console

You can import process applications from other Process Center repositories, and you can also export process applications.

Before you begin

Before you import or export process applications, ensure the following:

When importing a process application, the user and security groups, which are referenced by the teams in a process application, must exist in the user repository.
To import a process application, you must have repository access.
To export a process application you must have Read permission or be a repository administrator. For more information, see the topic Managing access to the Process Center repository.

Procedure

To import process applications from an IBM® BPM export (.twx) file, follow these steps:
1. Select the Process Apps tab.
2. Click the Import Process App option.
3. In the Import Process App window, click the Browse button to locate the IBM BPM export (.twx) file that you want to import.
  Note: Process applications that you import should have unique acronyms. If an acronym is not unique, the import completes with a warning; however, attempts to install snapshots of the process application on test and productions servers will fail with an error.
4. Click the Next button to import the selected .twx file. In the Import Process App window, click to expand the sections that show the snapshots that will be imported and the snapshots that are already available (and will not be imported).
5. Click the Import button.
When the import is complete, the imported process application is included in the list in the Process Apps tab.
Note: If you import a process application from an IBM BPM export (.twx) file that was created before Business Process Manager 7.5.1 and the process application references an IBM Content Integrator Server, the connector name will be lost and you will need to manually specify it again in the Servers tab of the Process App Settings editor.
To export process applications to IBM BPM, follow these steps:
1. Select the Process Apps tab.
2. In the list of process applications, click the application that you want to export.
3. Find the snapshot that you want to export. If a snapshot does not exist, create one by clicking Create New Snapshot.
4. Click the Export option for the snapshot.
5. Select BPMN 2.0 export (.zip) or IBM BPM export (.twx). A .twx file is a proprietary IBM format that includes snapshot and version information and can be reused by IBM BPM products. The BPMN 2.0 export format conforms to BPMN 2.0 standards and can be reused by products that support that standard. It contains the high-level process flow but not all the specifics conveyed in a .twx file.
6. Locate the directory to which you want to save the export file, name the file, and then save it. The exported file can be imported into any Process Center repository.

What to do next

Repository administrators can see a log of all imports by clicking the Admin option on the Process Center console and then clicking Import and Export Log.