Copying an existing solution

You can copy an existing solution, which is assigned to the same project area in development, to quickly design a new solution that is based on the existing solution.

About this task

The copy solution operation is available in the IBM® Business Automation Workflow Case administration client , which can be used in any domain. Project areas are only present in the development domain.

You can either reuse the existing properties or document classes from the original solution, or you can select the option to create properties or document classes when you deploy the new solution. When you reuse existing properties or document classes in a solution, you cannot redefine them in Case Builder. You can remove the property or document classes from the solution in Case Builder, but you cannot change any of the attributes, such as data type.

Copying an existing solution applies only in the development environment.

Restrictions:
  • You cannot copy a solution that has currently running tasks or that has files that are checked out.
  • You cannot copy an solution that was not yet committed.
  • If a property that was not defined in the solution, such as a system property, is used as a parameter for a rule operation in a workflow, the copy solution operation will fail validation. To copy the solution, you must clear the validation checkbox.

Procedure

To copy a solution:

  1. Start the Case administration client .
    Enter the following URL in a browser:
    http://server:port/navigator/?desktop=bawadmin
    server is the IBM Content Navigator IP address or fully qualified server name.
    port is the IBM Content Navigator port number.
  2. In the navigation tree in the left pane, select an object store and click Solutions.
  3. On the Solutions page in the right pane, select the solution that you want to copy.
  4. Click Actions > Copy and complete the wizard steps.