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Manage 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.

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:

  1. In the Server Admin area of the Process Admin Console, click the indicator next to Admin Tools to list the available options.

  2. Click the Manage EPVs option.

  3. Using the drop-down menu, select the process application snapshot that contains the EPV that you want to modify. Each process application snapshot listed also includes the track name. Current working versions of process applications are listed as Tip, enabling you to test EPVs on the Process Center Server without creating a snapshot.

  4. Using the drop-down menu, select the EPV that you want to edit. The Process Admin Console displays the variable values in the EPV that you can modify.

  5. Complete the following steps for each variable that you want to modify:

    1. Click the row of the variable that you want to change, and then click New.

    2. In the Exposed Process Value window, enter a new value, set the date and time at which you want the new value to take effect, and click OK.
    You can enter multiple values for the same variable, each taking effect at a different time. The Process Admin Console displays all modifications for each variable in a separate table.

  6. Click a row in the table and then use the Edit and Delete buttons to change or remove your modifications.

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