Think of the process application as a container. All snapshots, deployment, and versioning are handled at that container level, not at the level of the artifacts within the container. Snapshots are managed from the Process Center console.
Changes are dynamically saved to the Process Center repository at the tip of the working track. The process application remains at that tip level until you decide to create a snapshot (sn1). A process application snapshot can be deployed to a process center server or a process server for testing, staging, or production.
If you make changes and want to deploy a new version, you need to create a new snapshot (sn2). You can either remove sn1 or leave it running on the server when you deploy sn2.
Version context
IBM Business Process Manager assigns a global namespace for each process application. The global namespace is specifically either the process application's tip or a specific process application snapshot. The version name used by the server cannot be longer than seven characters, so the assigned name will be an acronym that uses characters from the snapshot name that you assigned. Snapshot acronyms will be identical to their snapshot names if the snapshot names conform to the recommended IBM VRM style and are not more that seven characters. For example, a snapshot name of 1.0.0 will have an acronym of 1.0.0, and a snapshot name of 10.3.0 will have the acronym of 10.3.0. The snapshot acronym will be guaranteed to be unique within the context of the process application within the scope of the Process Center server. For that reason, you cannot edit the snapshot acronym.
Versioning Process Designer process applications and toolkits
Typically, you take a process application snapshot every time that you are ready or potentially ready to deploy to production or to test integration. To deploy to a stand-alone process server, you must take a snapshot of the process application. It is a slightly different story for toolkits; you take a snapshot of a toolkit when you are ready for that toolkit to be used by process applications. Afterward, if you want to update the toolkit, you must take another snapshot of "tip" when you are ready, and then the owners of process applications and toolkits can decide whether they want to move up to the new snapshot. The tip is a special snapshot, and the only kind of snapshot in which you can change contents, but you can run it only on the Process Center server. You cannot deploy a tip to the Process Server.
Process applications in multiple clusters
When you deploy a process application to a cluster, an automatic synchronization of the nodes is performed.