About Synchronizing Process Runtime Settings with webMethods Monitor

You can create, modify, and delete stage, EDA event, and step enablement runtime settings in two locations:

In Software AG Designer, on the Stages page in the Property view, and on the Runtime page in the Property view.

In webMethods Monitor, as part of the Business Process administration functionality. For more information, see the chapter “Working with Process Models” in the PDF publication, webMethods Monitor User’s Guide.

In both cases, any changes to these runtime settings in a process model can be saved to the Process Audit database. The saved changes overwrite whatever previous setting information was present in the database. As a best practice, you should ensure that your runtime settings are always synchronized between the two locations.

When you open a process in Designer, it retrieves the runtime settings saved with the model in the local workspace.

When you click the Synchronize button on the Stages page in the Property view, or in the Runtime Editable Properties section of the Runtime page in the Property view, Designer retrieves the runtime settings from the database and applies them to the process model. Saving the process model saves the settings to the local workspace.

When you build and upload a process in Designer, the runtime settings in the model are written to the Process Audit database, overwriting whatever settings are stored there and applying those changes to the runtime environment. In addition, a warning message is recorded in the build and upload report.

If you want your process model in Designer to display the current database runtime stage settings, you must click the Synchronize button on the Stages page of the Property view. For more information, see Synchronizing Stage Settings.

If you want your process model in Designer to display the current runtime EDA event emission and step submission enablement values, you must click the Synchronize button on the Runtime Editable Properties section of the Runtime page in the Property view. For more information, see Enabling and Disabling Predefined EDA Event Emission for a Process Model.

If you want your process model runtime settings in Designer to be written to the database, click

to build and upload the process model. This overwrites whatever settings are stored in the database, and the setting are applied to the runtime environment.

To help ensure that you are working with the latest settings, you are advised to click the appropriate Synchronize button immediately before you modify and save these settings.

Important: Deleting a step that is contained in a process stage without first synchronizing the stage settings with the database can lead to the process being out of sync with edits performed in Monitor, resulting in unexpected behavior. Always click the stage settings Synchronize button immediately before you delete any steps in Designer that are contained in a stage.