Tips for Successful BPM Application Deployment and Undeployment

Deployment and undeployment of an application can be done from the Administrator UI, Administrator CLI scripts, or from TIBCO Business Studio.

  • Do not deploy multiple application instances from the same application template.
  • Do not attempt to undeploy applications with outstanding process instances or work items. If an attempt to undeploy an application stops at ’Preparing to Undeploy’, you should find and cancel any outstanding process instances or work items for that application.

    If you cancel a process instance that still has an open work item (for example the work item’s status is OPENED), then the work item becomes hidden, and the application will not undeploy. You can check there are no hidden work items:

    • In Workspace, by selecting either Only show hidden work items or Show visible and hidden work items from the View menu on the work item list.
    • In Openspace, by selectingVisible Equal FALSEfrom the Configure Filter dialog.

      You need to be sure that you are logged in as a user who has the correct privileges to see work items for this process.

  • If an attempt to undeploy an application does not remove all its components, you can use the cleanup utilities available from TIBCO Support. See Cleaning Up Undeployed BPM Applications.
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