Each Process Commander system has a production level, a value between 1 (lowest and least) and 5 (highest). This value affects many security features of your system.

The production levels are:
    5 = production
    4 = preproduction
    3 = test
    2 = development
    1 = experimental

The System instance (the single instance of the Data-Admin-System class) contains the production level of your system. When first installed, the production level is 2. The current level is recorded as the value of the pzProductionLevel property on the process page.

A high number implements a restrictive security scheme, for production use with few people empowered to change rules. A low number (of 1 or 2) allows developers a great deal of access and freedom, so they can experiment by creating and updating rules.

Where referenced

Production levels are referenced in Access of Role to Object rules. In addition, through System Setting rules, you can assign distinct values for a setting based on the current production level.

Circumstancing by production level

You can conditionalize operations of your application to depend on the production level by using the pyProcess.pxAdminSystem.pyProductionLevel property as a circumstance property. For example, this approach can cause a different activity or model to execute on a production system (level 5) than a development system (level 2), which can be useful when configuring global resource settings. BIXBS 5/31/07 present

Changing the production level

To change the production level of a system, open and update the Production level field on the Production tab of the System data instance. The change takes effect (for a node) the next time that a node is started.

	circumstance, global resource settings, process page
	About the System data instance About System Setting rules

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