Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.0 User Guide
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Chapter 7 Authoring Processes
Creating Processes as a Team
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Source control or versioning support
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Being notified in real-time that someone has locked a process that the user is editing
Enabling Team Process Authoring
The Environment Properties dialog box contains an option to enable/disable team process authoring on
a server. If enabled, it:
a server. If enabled, it:
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Locks and unlocks processes for editing
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Provides a server-wide setting that causes Edit process to become equivalent to Locking a process
for editing
for editing
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Warns users when they attempt to close the console and still have processes locked for editing
To enable this option:
Step 1
Choose File > Environment Properties.
Step 2
Check the Enable team development check box to enable team process authoring on this server.
Step 3
Click OK to save your changes.
Viewing Process Views by Lock Status
To view locked processes, choose Definitions > Processes, choose Filter by Lock, then choose one of
the options from the drop-down list.
the options from the drop-down list.
Editing Locked Processes
Use the Process Locking feature to edit locked processes:
Table 7-4
Summary of Process Locking Tasks
Task
Purpose
Lock a process
Enforce limits on access to a process. Locked processes are read-only to other users.
Choose Definitions > Processes, highlight the appropriate process, right-click and choose Lock.
Unlock a process
If you have locked a process, you can unlock that process from the Process Orchestrator console.
Choose Definitions > Processes, highlight the appropriate process, right-click and choose
Unlock.
Unlock.
Break a lock
If a process is locked by another user, and if you have Break Lock permissions, you can unlock
that process.
that process.
Choose Definitions > Processes, highlight the appropriate process, right-click and choose
Advanced > Break Lock.
Advanced > Break Lock.