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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:
- To subscribe to Blueprint processes, you need a Blueprint account. See http://blueprint.lombardi.com for more information.
- You cannot subscribe to Blueprint processes from a toolkit in the Designer in Lombardi Authoring Environment. Blueprint subscriptions are available only from existing process applications.
- You can subscribe to multiple Blueprint processes from a single process application.
- Sub-processes are included as separate BPDs within a subscription, whereas linked processes are included as a separate subscription.
Click the plus sign next to Blueprints in the library in the Designer view and select Subscribe to Blueprint Process:
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.
- Click the check box next to the processes to which you want to subscribe and click Next.
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.
- In the Blueprints category in the library, right-click the process that you want to change, and select Open in Blueprint.
- Make the required changes.
- 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:
- To update Blueprint process subscriptions, you need a Blueprint account. See http://blueprint.lombardi.com for more information.
- You cannot update Blueprint subscriptions when viewing a historical snapshot in the Designer view in Lombardi Authoring Environment.
- Updates made in Blueprint can be applied to subscribed Blueprint processes and supporting implementations in the Designer in Lombardi Authoring Environment. However, you cannot update your Blueprint processes with changes that you make in Lombardi Authoring Environment. So, if you have made changes in Lombardi Authoring Environment that are not reflected in the same assets in Blueprint, the Authoring Environment changes are overwritten when you update.
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:
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.
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:
- When you remove a subscription, the library items from Blueprint remain in the process application or toolkit but are no longer tagged as Blueprint items. This enables you to manage development of all assets solely in Lombardi when the Blueprint discovery phase is over.
- When you remove a subscription, historical snapshots in the Designer view in Lombardi Authoring Environment retain their subscription details and library items.
- If you remove a subscription and then later restore to a snapshot that includes the subscription, the entire Blueprint subscription is restored.
To remove existing subscriptions to Blueprint processes, follow these steps:
- In the Blueprints category in the library, right-click the subscription that you want to remove and select Remove Subscription.
- When prompted, confirm that you want to remove the subscription.
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