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Exposing Business Process Definitions

Exposure settings for business process definitions (BPDs) enable you to establish who can start the process and perform other tasks in the IBM Process Portal.

You need to expose a BPD to particular participant groups to establish who can:


Procedure

  1. In the Designer in IBM Process Designer, open the BPD that you want to expose.

  2. Click the Overview tab.

  3. In the Exposing section, configure the exposure settings to expose different aspects of the process to specific groups of users.

    Settings that can be enabled in the Exposing section
    Exposure setting Action
    Expose to start Click the Select button to choose the participant group whose members can start instances of this process in IBM Process Portal. Members of the selected participant group can start instances of the process from the Launch tab in IBM Process Portal.
    Expose business data Click the Select button to choose the participant group whose members can view ad hoc reports that include data for this process in IBM Process Portal.
    Expose performance metrics Click the Select button to choose the participant group whose members can view data for this process in the Process Performance dashboard in IBM Process Portal.
    To remove an assigned participant group, click the X icon next to the exposure setting.

  4. Save your changes. Exposed BPDs and data from the current working version are always available in IBM Process Portal. However, If you want exposed BPDs and data from a particular snapshot to be available in IBM Process Portal while under development on the Process Center Server, you need to activate the snapshot (version) that you want. Anyone with administrative access to the process application can activate snapshots. When you deploy snapshots of process applications on Process Server in other environments, such as test and production environments, those snapshots are active by default.

Configure a role-based business user interface


Related tasks:
Create a participant group
Activating snapshots for use with IBM Process Portal