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Configure Process Portal

Process Portal allows users to interact with processes using a web browser.

• If you used the deployment environment configuration wizard on an ND environment, steps 1 and 2 are already completed for you, and you can skip to step 3.

• If you have a stand-alone profile, skip to step 4.

Procedure

1. If you have an ND environment, and you did not configure the Business Space component yet, perform Configuring Business Space: .

   Tip: To find out whether Business Space is already configured, click WebSphere application server clusters > cluster_name > Business Space Configuration.

   If Business Space is configured, you see a message that indicates that it is already installed.

2. If you did not yet configure Process Portal, perform any one of the following actions, depending on your requirements:

   1. Configure Process Portal while using the administrative console to configure a Process Server or Process Center:
      • Configuring a Process Server:
      • Configure a Process Center

   2. Configure Process Portal by running the configureBPMProcessPortal command.

      For example, to configure Process Portal on a stand-alone server, using the same server for applications and messaging, using a Jython command:

      AdminTask.configureBPMProcessPortal('[-nodeName myNode -serverName myServer -save true]')

      For example, to configure Process Portal on a cluster, using separate clusters for applications and messaging, using a JACL command:

      $AdminTask configureBPMProcessPortal {-clusterName myCluster -appClusterName myAppCluster 
                                            -meClusterName myMeCluster -save true}

      For more information about using this command, see configureBPMProcessPortal command.

3. If you are using a three or four cluster configuration, and you have not yet configured a routing server for Business Space, to ensure that requests for Process Portal are redirected to the correct cluster, perform Configure a proxy server for Process Portal: .

4. If you want users to be able to access Process Portal using HTTP rather than the Business Space default of HTTPS, perform Designating HTTP or HTTPS settings for Business Space: .

   Restriction: Be aware that not all of the Process Portal functionality is available if you change the access settings to HTTP.

5. If you want Process Portal to run inside an HTML form, you must set the com.ibm.bpm.social.enableRunInFrame variable to true. See Enabling Process Portal to run in an HTML frame: .

6. Perform Verifying Process Portal: .

Results

Business Space, Process Portal, and if necessary, a routing server are configured and working. Users can use a web browser to interact with processes.

See

1. Configure a proxy server for Process Portal
   
2. Enabling Process Portal to run in an HTML frame
   
3. Verifying Process Portal
   
4. Configure the Business Space component for Process Portal
   

Configure additional components

Related reference:

IBM BPM Production Topologies