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Subscribing to Blueprint processes

If members of your team are discovering and developing processes in Blueprint, you can easily access those processes from Lombardi Authoring Environment, alter them, and then share the results with Blueprint users.

Before performing any of the following tasks, start Lombardi Authoring Environment and open the Designer view as explained in Start Lombardi Authoring Environment.


Subscribing to Blueprint processes in the Designer view

If you need to access one or more Blueprint processes from Lombardi Authoring Environment, you can create a subscription

When you subscribe to Blueprint processes, be aware of the following:


  1. Click the plus sign next to Blueprints in the library in the Designer view and select Subscribe to Blueprint Process:

  2. Type in your Blueprint user name and password and click Next.

    You can set the Blueprint server URL and user name in the preferences for Lombardi Authoring Environment. Select File > Preferences from the main menu, expand the Lombardi entry, and then click the Blueprint option. Enter the URL and user name that you would like to use for Blueprint integration.

  3. Click the check box next to the processes to which you want to subscribe and click Next.
  4. On the Summary page, verify the list of Blueprint processes shown. If you want the subscription name displayed in the Designer to be different from the Blueprint process name, type in a new name in the Subscription Name field. When you are done verifying processes and changing subscription names, click Finish.

    Subscription names cannot exceed 64 characters.

    The resulting subscriptions are displayed within the Blueprints category in the library.

    If you go to the All category and click to see all library items in the current process application, Blueprint items are marked with a Blueprint icon and tag. When you subscribe to a Blueprint process, all associated library items (such as timing intervals and tracking groups) are automatically created.

If you subscribe to Blueprint processes and subsequently need to change those processes, you can open the processes in Blueprint directly from Lombardi Authoring Environment, make the required changes, and then update the process subscriptions


Opening subscribed processes in Blueprint

If you subscribe to one or more Blueprint processes and then decide to make changes to those processes, you can open the processes in Blueprint while working in Lombardi Authoring Environment.

  1. In the Blueprints category in the library, right-click the process that you want to change, and select Open in Blueprint.
  2. Make the required changes.
  3. Update the process subscription in Lombardi Authoring Environment


Update Blueprint processes in the Designer view

If you subscribe to Blueprint processes and then make changes to those processes in Blueprint, you can update your processes in Lombardi Authoring

When you update, be aware of the following:


  1. In the Blueprints category in the library, right-click the subscription that includes items that have been changed in Blueprint, and select Update from Blueprint.

    To see all items that will be updated, you can click on a process subscription to display its library items as shown in the following example:

  2. Type in your Blueprint user name and password and click Next.

    You can set the Blueprint server URL and user name in the preferences for Lombardi Authoring Environment. Select File > Preferences from the main menu, expand the Lombardi entry, and then click the Blueprint option. Enter the URL and user name that you would like to use for Blueprint integration.

  3. The updates from Blueprint are applied to the subscribed items in Lombardi Authoring Environment. You should snapshot the changes so that you have a record of the updates.

If Blueprint users make additional changes after you update, you need to update the process subscription again to see the most recent changes in Lombardi Authoring Environment.


Remove Blueprint subscriptions from the Designer view

You can remove existing subscriptions to Blueprint processes from the Designer view in Lombardi Authoring Environment. When you remove subscriptions, be aware of the following:

To remove existing subscriptions to Blueprint processes, follow these steps:

  1. In the Blueprints category in the library, right-click the subscription that you want to remove and select Remove Subscription.
  2. When prompted, confirm that you want to remove the subscription.

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