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The exposed dashboard service from toolkit is still showing in Process Portal

This is the issue I noticed in IBM BPM 8.5.7 before december fix pack. This might be fixed in next fix packs, but if you are facing this issue you can try the steps in last paragraph. If you want you can read my sad efforts :D

I had faced this issue while designing dashboard client side human service (CSHS). For testing the dashboard service with custom components, I copied it into toolkit and then forgot to remove it before creating toolkit snapshot. As a result, the process apps started showing this coach from toolkit under Exposed items after upgrading to latest toolkit version.

It took some time to figure out why multiple dashboard is showing up in Process Portal and later realized the duplicate copies are from toolkit. So fixed the exposure of the dashboard CSHS (I didn't delete, as I needed it for testing) and upgaded the toolkit version. As expected it removed the coach from Exposed items list in Designer, but interestingly it was still available in the Process Portal and was accessible. wierd :/ :(

I then tried to change the name of the coach inside the toolkit and upgraded the version. Interestingly it was still available in the Portal with previous name from each process apps.

Seems there is some bug IBM has left while working on the CSHS exposures and it don't remove the exposure entry for each process app if you change the exposure setting in the toolkit.

Finally I decided to reset the toolkit dependency. I removed the toolkit and added it back. As expected it cleaned all the entries of that toolkit and fixed the exposed coach issue.

Cheers,
Saroj

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