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Resources are a way of restricting jobs to run on process servers that have certain facilities available. Job definitions can optionally require a resource, when they have, they are forced to run on a process server that offers that resource. Such job definitions will only run on a process server that provides that resource. Process servers may provide one or more resources.

Resources are part of the Definitions section in the navigation bar. There are no standard resources provided with SAP CPS

Resources support the basic actions of New, Edit, Delete, and Refresh.

Actions

Resources support the following actions:

Action

Description

Export

Export the resource into a CAR file

Edit

Edit the resource

Edit Security

Edit the security of the resource

Delete

Delete the resource

Duplicate

Make a copy of the resource to create a similar one

Expand All

Expand all resources in the current filter

New

Create a new resource

Filter > New Filter

Create a new resource filter

Filter > Edit Filter

Edit current resource filter

Filter > Delete

Delete current resource filter
Finding Resources

You can search for resources using filters and the Search Resources box on the Resources tab. This box is known as the intelliSearch box and located under your username on the top right-hand side of the user interface. Filters allow you to specify a list of objects with static criteria. IntelliSearch allows you to specify complex queries in a simple way using prefixes. Prefixes are used to specify which property you are searching in and have short and long syntaxes. For example, if you want to display all resources with the term production in the comment, you would use the search criteria as follows:

c:production

You can search more than one property, as follows:

c:production n:Bi

Note Note

No spaces should be entered before or after the colon (:).

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See the Advanced Object Search for more information.

The following table illustrates the available prefixes for resources:

Prefixes

Description

n, name

searches the name property

c, com, comment

searches the comment property

d, desc, description

searches the description property

a, app, application

searches the application property
Deleting Resources

You can only delete resources when no other objects relate to them. For example, if there are still jobs or job definitions that reference the resource, the resource cannot be deleted until all references have been deleted. You can see all references to the resource in Related Objects in the lower detail pane and on the show page. Resources used by process servers are shown in the Process Server Resources table.

The table in related objects contains three columns:

  • Type - the type of object, like Job Definition for a job definition with a link to it

  • Related Object - the name of the object with a link to it

  • Used As - objects can sometimes be used as different object types

For example, resources that are used in job job definitions, will have the call-reference in Related Objects. The type will be Job Definition, for examnple and the Related Object will be the name of the job definition.

Note Note

When a job definition is displayed with a timestamp in the name, this indicates that there still is a job that refers to the resource. You might have changed the job definition, but as long as that job is in the system you will not be able to delete the resource.

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Security

Privilege

Description

Resource.Create

Create resources

Resource.Delete

Delete resources

Resource.Edit

Edit resources

Resource.View

Access resources

You can grant privileges on two levels, Access and Admin; a privilege granted on Admin level allows the grantee to grant the privilege to other users. These privileges can be granted system-wide, per partition or isolation group.

If you have the security module, which requires the Module.Security license key, you have an additional Security tab on the resource. It allows you to specify which users can access, edit, and delete the resource.

Procedure

  1. Choose   Definitions → Resources  .

  2. Choose Refresh to see all existing resources.

  3. Choose New to create a resource.

  4. Fill in the details, refer to the section below.

  5. Choose Save and Close to save the resource.

Resource

  • Name - The name of the resource.

  • Application - The name of the application used to group this object.

  • Description - An optional description of the resource.

  • Comment - An optional comment about the resource.

Resource Providers

  • Process Server - The name of the process server that will provide the resource.

Example

  1. Choose   Definitions → Resources   in the Navigation bar.

  2. Choose New from the context menu and fill in the values below.

  3. Choose the Resource Providers tab.

  4. Choose the New button and select a process server that will provide this resource.

  5. Choose Save and Close to save the new resource.

Name: PRINTER

Description: Printer resource

Comment: Process servers that provide this resource have a printer available.