Activating snapshots for use with IBM Process Portal

If you want exposed library items within particular snapshots to display in IBM® Process Portal while those items are being developed in (and reside on) the Process Center server, you need to activate the snapshot that contains the version of the items that you want to display. For example, if you are developing a business process definition (BPD) and you want to start the BPD in Process Portal, you need to activate the snapshot that contains the version of the BPD that you want to start.

About this task

Activating the version of the BPD you want to use enables you to start and run the BPD on IBM Process Portal for testing and other purposes.

Note that only the BPD is activated when you activate a process application. If the process application uses BPEL processes and the associated templates were stopped (as described in "Administering BPEL process and task templates"), follow the instructions in that section to start the templates.

Note: Exposed BPDs and data from the current working version (tip) are always available. Activation is required only when you want to access a snapshot version of an item or data that resides on the Process Center server.

When you deploy snapshots of process applications on Process Servers in other environments, such as test and production environments, those snapshots are active by default.

To activate or deactivate a snapshot, you must be a repository administrator, an administrator for the selected process application or toolkit, or the user who created the process application or toolkit.

Procedure

In the Process Center console, select the Process Apps or Toolkits tab.
Click to select the process application or toolkit for which you want to activate a snapshot. If multiple tracks exist, select the track that you want from the drop-down menu.
Find the snapshot that you want, and then click Activate from its pop-up menu ().

Results

When you start IBM Process Portal by directing your browser to http://[host_name]:[port]/portal, providing the name of the host on which IBM Process Center server is installed and the port designated for the server during installation, you can access the exposed library items in the activated snapshot. Using the previous example, you can start the exposed BPD in Process Portal.

Note: To deactivate a snapshot, follow the preceding steps and click the Deactivate option.