WebSphere Lombardi Edition 7.2 > Modeling processes > Advanced modeling tasks > Manage and mapping variables
Making variables available for Process Portal searches
If you want process participants in Lombardi Process Portal to be able to search for particular business data across process instances, follow the steps in this procedure to properly configure the variables that need to be available.
- In the Designer in Lombardi Authoring Environment, open the BPD that includes the variables you want to configure.
- Click the Variables tab in the Designer.
- For each variable whose runtime values you want to search, enable the Available in Search check box in the Business Data Search section. For complex variables, be sure to enable the check box for each parameter you want to search.
Type a name for the variable in the Search Alias text box. This is the name to use when performing searches in Lombardi Process Portal.
If a variable is shared by multiple BPDs (for example, a parent process and its nested processes) and you want the variable to be searchable in all of those processes, you must define the same search alias for the variable in each of the BPDs where it is used.
- Save your changes.
Now when Lombardi runs instances of the BPDs that contain the configured variables, you can search for process instances that include these variables in Lombardi Process Portal.
Parent topic: Manage and mapping variables