For many Designer sites "pre-posting", the process of reconciling and posting a completed design job to the master SDE.DEFAULT database version prior to final construction in the field, is a common practice. Pre-posting can offer many benefits: enterprise wide access for visualizing completed jobs, network tracing across new and existing facilities, layout reference for multistage design jobs with facility dependencies, etc..
Designer sites who currently employ pre-posting may benefit from an advanced configuration setting in the Process Framework titled WMSUsePostWhereClause. This setting automatically directs the Verify Design subtask embedded in the standard Design Post task to intelligently limit deletion of a design's features based on the unique Design ID value of the current design (coupled of course with the feature's specific Work Function value). Limiting this delete behavior as such permits a user to reconcile their job to SDE.DEFAULT over its lifetime without fear of mistakenly deleting facilities during a final post that were never part of their specific job.
An administrator can apply this setting (a value of 1 indicating "on") via the Configuration tab within the Process Framework Administration Tool. Refer to the ProcessFrameworkAdminHelp.chm Help file for more detail on this setting as well as a variety of other advanced configurations options.
