Installing the desktop IBM Process Designer (deprecated)

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The desktop IBM® Process Designer runs only on Windows. If the desktop Process Designer was not installed when you installed the Workflow Center, you can download and install the desktop Process Designer from Workflow Center. Using Installation Manager to install the desktop Process Designer is not supported.

About this task

Process Designer, Workflow Center, and each runtime environment must be running the same version of IBM Business Automation Workflow.

Procedure

  1. From the machine you intend to install desktop Process Designer on, open Workflow Center. Note the host and port in its URL.
  2. In the following URL, replace WORKFLOW_CENTER_HOST and WORKFLOW_CENTER_PORT with the host and port you use to access Workflow Center. 
     https://WORKFLOW_CENTER_HOST:WORKFLOW_CENTER_PORT/ProcessCenter/repository/com.lombardisoftware.repository.Repository/downloadDesigner?platform=win&url=https://WORKFLOW_CENTER_HOST:WORKFLOW_CENTER_PORT
  3. Open the URL in a browser to download the desktop Process Designer and extract the contents of the IBM Process Designer.zip file to a temporary directory on your file system.
  4. Open a command window and change to the directory where you extracted the contents of the IBM Process Designer.zip file.
    Important: If you are running Windows, start your command prompt by right-clicking and selecting Run as administrator.
  5. Run one of the following commands to install the desktop Process Designer. If you are in the Administrators group on Windows, you can install using the admin command. If you are not an administrative user, or if you want to install to your own username without administrative privileges, install using the nonadmin command.
    Default location (C:\IBM\ProcessDesigner\v8.5)
    • installProcessDesigner_admin.bat
    • installProcessDesigner_nonadmin.bat
    Different location
    • installProcessDesigner_admin.bat installLocation
    • installProcessDesigner_nonadmin.bat installLocation
    If the location has spaces in the directory name, put the whole location in quotation marks.
    The following examples show how to install to a different location.
    • installProcessDesigner_admin.bat D:\IBM\PD
    • installProcessDesigner_admin.bat "D:\Process Designer\"

Results

Installation messages are recorded in the file %TEMP%\IBMProcessDesignerInstall.log, where the %TEMP% variable is typically set to C:\Documents and Settings\current_user_name\Local Settings\Temp.
Note: Use the suppressRedirectUrlPasswd option to suppress the inclusion of the user password in the URLs that Process Designer opens. See Security configuration properties.

What to do next

To access the shortcut, click Start > IBM Process Designer Edition > Process Designer.
If you are accessing the Business Automation Workflow system from desktop Process Designer directly without an intermediary web server, and you are using the default generated SSL certificates in Business Automation Workflow, you may receive the following security alerts when opening Process Designer.
  • The SSL certificate does not have revocation information, which may lead to warnings in some versions of Internet Explorer. To resolve this issue, disable the certificate revocation in Internet Explorer:
    1. Go to Internet Explorer > Tools > Internet options.
    2. Click the Advanced tab.
    3. From the Security section, deselect Check for server certificate revocation.
    4. Restart Internet Explorer and desktop Process Designer.
  • The signer certificate is not trusted by the browser. To resolve this issue, install the signer certificate into your Windows trust store.
    Note: Make sure that you select the top-level signer certificate from the certification tree.
We generally do not recommend disabling certificate revocation checks, but it may be necessary when setting up your Business Automation Workflow system or the web server in front of it with certificates from you corporate certificate authority.