For business resilience and compliance reasons, important process content still needs to be retrievable after multiple decades. For that reason, Stages can generate archives with the following capabilities:
PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for use in the archiving and long-term preservation of electronic documents (Wikipedia).
It contains all required fonts and similar information so the document can be opened without relying on any external dependencies. PDF/A files therefore tend to be larger than their respective PDF counterparts.
Note: The metamodel must be prepared for archiving by specifying a PDF template for archiving in the archiveTemplate attribute of the process.
e.g. <processtype […] archiveTemplate=“processhandbook”>
To archive a specific process version, navigate to the respective workspace and go to “Management > Process Versions
”.
Then select the “Create archive” menu for the process version to be archived.
If the archive should be password-protected, enable the respective switch and provide a password. The ZIP archive will then be encrypted with the AES-256 algorithm.
If the archive generation runs into any problems, a respective warning will be shown and the details are shown via the “Warnings
” button.
The finished archive can be downloaded via the “Download
” button.
For the process archive creation, the user needs to have the following read permissions for the workspace in the following permission domains:
The generation of links from the PDF/A file to the included checklists, templates, and other files is not guaranteed to work for Asian character sets.
In some cases, the Windows built-in ZIP extraction might have problems to open an encrypted ZIP archive. Please try using 7-Zip or similar specialized tools for this purpose.