Authentication during playback to handle changes in user identity (deprecated)
Process applications can use Process Designer capabilities that you can access only from your locally installed Process Designer and some capabilities that you can access only on the web. This topic describes the behavior that occurs when you have an artifact open in the web browser and you do a playback from within the Process Designer installed locally on your computer.
About this task
When you start the playback session, the playback window
opens in the default browser window for Process Designer. The
following actions occur:
- When you claim a task that is currently assigned to a team that you belong to, you are prompted to select the user name that you will run the task as. You can choose to run the task as the logged-in user or as a different user. The logged-in user is selected by default.
- The task is run in a web browser and you are logged in to the web browser using the selected user name.
- If you select a different user name, ensure that the different user belongs to a user group that has read or write access to that process application.
- If a playback action is performed using a different user name, you are notified that you will be logged out of your browser session to allow you to complete the playback action as the different user.
- After the playback action is complete, you are prompted to log back in to the web browser.
Depending on what artifact you are working
with, different actions can trigger this behavior. For example, you
can encounter the described behavior when you perform either one of
the following actions:
- Click Run to claim a business process definition (BPD) task instance.
- Open a heritage human service in Process Designer and click Run Service to test it in a playback session.
- Right-click a human service or a heritage human service and select to launch the playback session.