Managing exposed process values (EPVs)
Exposed process values (EPVs) are variables that certain users can change when processes are running on the Process Center server or a Process Server in your test, production, or other runtime environment.
Before you begin
The Process Admin Console restrictions must allow managing the EPVs. See Restricting access to the Process Admin Console.
To view and manage a specific EPV, the EPV must be exposed to you as described in Creating exposed process values (EPVs).
About this task
To understand how EPVs can be changed, consider the following example: Suppose a process author is creating an Expense Reimbursement process and wants the process to be flexible so that it can work in any major organization. To support this flexibility, the process author creates EPVs to enable some end users to adjust specific variable values as constants, thereby affecting the flow of the process, task assignments, and so on. The process author can, for example, enable supervisors in the organization to change the allowed amounts for daily expenditures, or the dollar amount that coincides with the various levels of approvers.
The users who can manage EPVs is determined during process design in IBM® Process Designer. When a process author creates an EPV, the exposure setting is used to select the users who can alter the EPV. If you are included in the exposure setting, you can manage EPVs as described in the following procedure.
Procedure
To manage EPVs, follow these steps: