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Manage snapshots
Snapshots record the state of library items within a process application or track at a specific point in time. You can create snapshots in the Process Center Console or in the Designer view. Snapshot management, such as installing, exporting, and archiving, is performed in the Process Center Console.
In addition to the topics covered in this section, you can refer to the following topics for more information about managing snapshots:
- Import and export snapshots of process applications
- Import and export snapshots of toolkits
- Archive snapshots of toolkits
- Install snapshots to a process server
- Undeploy snapshots from a process server
You can create snapshots of the process applications and toolkits that you have created or to which you have write or administrative access.
Before performing any of the following tasks, start IBM Process Designer and open the appropriate view.
IBM BPM does not require unique snapshot names. However, you cannot install a snapshot of a process application in a runtime environment if a snapshot with the same name has already been installed. This is also true for snapshots in different tracks.
- Create snapshots in the Process Center Console
You can create new snapshots for process applications or toolkits from the Process Center Console.
- Create snapshots in the Designer view
You can create new snapshots for process applications or toolkits from the Designer view.
- Comparing snapshots in the Designer view
You can compare previously created snapshots in the Designer view. You can see information about the snapshots, such as the time they were created and any processes that were added to them.
- Setting status for snapshots
To manage the development of your toolkit and process applications (such as testing, approvals, and reuse), you can set status for snapshots.- Create snapshots from the revision history in the Designer view
In addition to capturing snapshots of your ongoing efforts in the Designer view, you can also create snapshots from previous points in time using the entries in the revision history.For example, if you need to snapshot your project as it existed before several new items were added, you can use the revision history to locate the point in time that meets your needs.
- 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.
- Dectivating snapshots on a Process Center server
If you previously activated a snapshot on the Process Center server, you can deactivate it.
- Archiving snapshots in the Process Center Console
If a process application snapshot is no longer used, you can archive it. When you archive a snapshot, it no longer appears in the list of snapshots for the process application in the Process Center Console.
You must restore a snapshot if you want to edit it or perform any other actions on it.
- Undeploying a snapshot on a Process Center server
If a process application snapshot contains Advanced Integration Services (for example, SCA modules or BPEL processes), you can use the Process Center Console to undeploy a snapshot from the Process Center server.