Saving your changes in IBM Process Designer

In the desktop Process Designer, your changes are not saved until you click Save or press Ctrl+S. An asterisk (*) beside the name of the artifact that you are editing indicates that there are unsaved changes. If you close your editor without saving, you lose your changes.

In the web Process Designer, you can configure how your changes are saved by activating one of the two save modes:

• The explicit save mode: In this mode, your changes are not saved until you click Save (similar to the desktop Process Designer). After you save your changes, the artifacts become available to other users for editing.
• The automatic save mode: In this mode, every change that you make is automatically saved as you make it. As a result, when you close an editor or the browser crashes, your changes are still preserved. The indicates the artifacts that you change. At this point, other users who have the same library item open can view your changes only in read-only mode. To make the artifacts available to others for editing, you must click Finish Editing after you complete your changes.