WebSphere Lombardi Edition 7.2 > Modeling processes > Configure BPDs
Exposing BPDs
You need to expose a BPD to particular participant groups to establish who can:
- Start instances of the process in Lombardi Process Portal
- View data for instances of the process in reports in Lombardi Process Portal
- In the Designer in Lombardi Authoring Environment, open the BPD that you want to expose.
- Click the Overview tab.
In the Exposing section, enable the exposure setting(s) that you want:
Expose to start Click the Select button to choose the participant group whose members can start instances of this process in Lombardi Process Portal. Members of the selected participant group can start instances of the process using the New icon in the Process Portal Inbox. See Start a new process in Lombardi Process Portal User Guide or online help for more information. To create a new participant group to use for this exposure setting, click the New button Expose business data Click the Select button to choose the participant group whose members can create ad-hoc reports that include data for this process in Lombardi Process Portal. Members of the selected participant group can select this process for their ad-hoc report. See Create ad-hoc reports in Lombardi Process Portal User Guide or online help. To create a new participant group to use for this exposure setting, click the New button and see Create a participant group for instructions. Expose performance metrics Click the Select button to choose the participant group whose members can view data for this process in the Process Performance scoreboard in Lombardi Process Portal. For more information about the Process Performance scoreboard, see Work with reports in Lombardi Process Portal User Guide or online help. To create a new participant group to use for this exposure setting, click the New button and see Create a participant group for instructions. To remove an assigned participant group, click the X icon next to the exposure setting.
Save your changes.
Exposed BPDs and data from the current working version (tip) are always available in Lombardi Process Portal. However, If you want exposed BPDs and data from a particular snapshot to be available in Lombardi 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 install snapshots of process applications on Process Servers in other environments, such as test and production environments, those snapshots are active by default. You can deactivate installed snapshots, change participant group members, and perform other configuration tasks.
Parent topic: Configure BPDs