Managing the Workflow Center repository

Overview

The Workflow Center Console provides the tools that you need to maintain the repository. The following figure illustrates how the Workflow Center Console provides access to the Workflow Center:

• From the Workflow Center console, you can create process applications and toolkits and grant other users access to those process applications and toolkits.
• Users in IBM Process Designer create process models, services, and other assets within process applications and toolkits.
• The Workflow Center includes two main features-a Workflow Center server and Performance Data Warehouse. These features allow users working in Process Designer to run their process applications and store performance data for testing and playback purposes during development efforts.
• From the Workflow Center console, administrators install process applications that are ready for testing or production on the Workflow Servers in those environments.

Where to perform tasks

The Workflow Center console provides a convenient location for users to create and maintain high-level library items such as process applications and toolkits. For users who are primarily administrators and do not actively work in Process Designer, the Workflow Center console enables you to manage snapshot creation and the deployment of process applications. Another primary task for administrators is managing access to the Workflow Center repository by setting up the appropriate authorization for users and groups.

The Workflow Center console is also available within IBM Process Designer. Process Designer users with administrator authority can perform the same actions using the embedded Workflow Center console as they can using the browser-based Workflow Center console.

If you want to use Workflow Center console to test, install, or administer a process application snapshot that contains advanced content, such as a BPEL process, or an IBM Business Monitor model, the user or group to which you belong must be assigned to the WebSphere® Application Server administrative security roles of Configurator, Operator, and Deployer. If you are not currently assigned to all of these roles, click Users and Groups in the WebSphere administrative console to modify the user or group roles.

The procedures in the following sections provide instructions for users working in the Workflow Center console as well as the embedded Workflow Center console in IBM Process Designer.