Use generic process integration portlets in a cross-cell setup
If you have installed WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Process Server in separate cells and want to use the Task Processing portlet or the Manage Processes portlet, you need to manually copy required process artifacts from the process server to the portal server. If you are running a clustered portal setup, you need to copy the process artifacts to all portal servers in the cluster.
If you do not copy the required process artifacts from the process server to the portal server in a cross-cell deployment of your process portal, the Manage Processes portlet and the Task Processing portlet will not have access to the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and XML Schema Definition (XSD) files contained in the process templates installed on the WebSphere Process Server. These files contain the information necessary for generating the generic user interface for the input and output data of the individual human tasks defined in those processes. While these files are automatically loaded in a single-cell setup by the WebSphere Process Server Remote Artifact Loader, remote artifact loading is not available for cross-cell deployments at this time.
To make these process artifacts available to the WebSphere Process Server Client that is installed on WebSphere Portal, use WebSphere Integration Developer to export the corresponding Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and XML Schema Definition (XSD) files from your process definitions into corresponding .jar files and copy the .jar files to the portal server. You should place the .jar files into a folder that is listed in the WAS ws.ext.dirs custom JVM property. The setup-wp.processintegration.config configuration task that you ran to enable process integration in a cross-cell environment already extended the ws.ext.dirs property to include the folder profile_root/processArtifacts; therefore, you can simply create the folder profile_root/processArtifacts and copy the .jar files into that folder. No additional configuration is needed.
Parent topic:
Work with process applications
Related tasks
Enable process integration in a cross-cell setup
Verify the setup of process integration
Manage processes
Work on tasks
Related information
Technote #1298478 Share-by-reference schema and interface definitions between modules