Work with Application Snapshots

An application snapshot is a read-only copy of an application at a particular moment. Because snapshots are read-only, you can’t open them for editing.

You can:

• Create a snapshot from the last published version of an application

• View the contents of a snapshot

• Export an application based on a snapshot

• Deploy an application based on a snapshot

• Delete a snapshot

Participants with owner or editor permissions can create a snapshot.

On the Recent Activity pane, click Snapshots to open the Add Snapshots dialog box. Click Add Snapshot , enter a name and description for your new snapshot, and then click Add. The snapshot appears in the list of snapshots defined for this application, including the date the snapshot was created and the user ID of the snapshot creator.

By viewing the contents of a snapshot you can compare previous versions of an application with the current one.

Click Snapshots, and then click the name of the snapshot you want to view. Within the snapshot view, you can view the state of the processes, rules, and human tasks associated with the application.

To return to the active version of an application, click its name at the top of the page.

Users with the Editor role can revert back to a previous snapshot, which basically means setting the time that the snapshot was taken as the current time. Snapshots taken after that time are discarded. To revert to a previous snapshot, click Snapshots. Right-click and select Revert to Snapshot on the snapshot you want to revert back to.

Users with the Editor role can delete snapshots they created. Users with either the Owner role or the Administrator role can delete any snapshot created by any user.

Caution:

You can’t recover a deleted application snapshot.

To delete an application snapshot, click Snapshots. Select the snapshot you want to delete and click Delete.