Hi.

Since I am new to IBM BPM and Process Designer I wanna know how to synchronize groups between dev and production environment.

More specific: We are using IBM BPM version 8.5.7. and I created groups through Process Admin - Group Management in production environment. How can I get those, created groups, in development environment?

Also, will getting groups in dev environment result with also seeing, and using, these groups in Proceess Desginer - putting them in Teams etc?

The documentation in BAW 20.0.0.1 has improved the section on synchronization of users and groups -- with a few updates to command-line commands in this later release, but I think this is the best reference for you.

Synchronizing users and groups

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4_20.x/com.ibm.wbpm.admin.doc/topics/sync_users_and_groups.html

Upon re-reading your question, however, I see this is not what you are asking about. Here is answer to your question:

There is no specific feature to synchronize BPM groups created in your Process Center to your Process Servers. This synchronization will happen automagically if you have a BPM group as a "Standard Member" of a Team definition -- and then deploy a snapshot of a Process App containing that Team to a Process Server.

During the deployment (import) of the Process App to the Process Server - BPM will create the necessary objects (including BPM groups) to satisfy Team definition references. In fact, if you have a Team defined on your Process Center that uses an LDAP group -- and that LDAP group is not available on your Process Server, the deploy (import) process will create a BPM group with the same name as the missing LDAP group to satisfy that Team reference.

In both cases, if you examine the group using the "Group Details" of the BPM REST API Tester (URL: /bpmrest-ui ) you would see a description of:

'Auto generated during snapshot installment'

Thank you on your reply, I see this part regarding BPM REST -If I check group details using REST -> description section says for some groups: "Auto generated during snapshot installment". And that is okay?

But what if I have made a group in production environment using Process Admin and I need to reach to that group in development environment?

So, how can I "import" groups in other way - from production to development environment?