Registering workflow centers and sharing toolkits

When you register two workflow centers with each other, you can share toolkits with other users, or subscribe to toolkits that other users share.

You can share toolkits with other users, even if those users are working in a different workflow center. You no longer need to first export the toolkits from one workflow center and then import them into another workflow center.

To share toolkits between the two workflow centers, the various participants complete the following tasks:
  1. An administrator enables both workflow centers for sharing.
  2. An administrator registers the workflow center that accesses the shared toolkit.
  3. The author of the toolkit that will be shared selects a snapshot of that toolkit and releases it.
  4. The author of the toolkit that will be shared selects that toolkit and shares it with other workflow centers, enabling that toolkit to be shared with any workflow center that is registered to the sharing workflow center.
    Restriction: The shared toolkit is downloaded to the subscribing workflow center as a read-only copy. The subscriber cannot modify or share the subscribed toolkit.

After a toolkit is shared, events are synchronized and snapshots are released automatically once every 24 hours. The sharing workflow center is notified when a shared toolkit is being used on a registered workflow center. The subscribing workflow center is notified of new released snapshots as well as the state of the shared toolkits.