Guidelines for Setting Runtime Security for a Process

At startup, a process instance can assume one of the following identities:

When configuring runtime security at the process level, consider the following guidelines.

Your Objective:	Required Configuration:
Run the process as the caller user. Enforce runtime security rights with the identity of the user who starts the process instance.	Select Enable in the Runtime Security field. Clear Run as Owner.
Run the process as owner. Enforce runtime security by running process instances under the identity of the owner, regardless of who starts it.	Select Enable in the Runtime Security field. Select Run as Owner.
Disable validating and enforcing process ownership at runtime.	Select Disable in the Runtime Security field. This option helps ensure backward compatibility for existing processes.

Your Objective:

Required Configuration:

Run the process as the caller user.

Enforce runtime security rights with the identity of the user who starts the process instance.

Run the process as owner.

Enforce runtime security by running process instances under the identity of the owner, regardless of who starts it.

Disable validating and enforcing process ownership at runtime.

Select Disable in the Runtime Security field. This option helps ensure backward compatibility for existing processes.

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