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A Pool in a BPMN collaboration diagram represents a participant of a collaboration. A Pool can have its inner process flows defined. You can add the elements from a BPMN Process diagram to a pool. You can also hide the pool details by displaying a “black box” pool. A Pool can also have inner lanes.


To create a Pool from Diagram pallet

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  1. On the Collaboration Diagram pallet,

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  1. click Horizontal Pool

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  1.  and select a needed type of Pool.
  2. Select Resources and

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  1. click OK.


To create a Pool with a representing Resources from the Containment tree

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  • Drag a Resource, Organization, Post, or Person from the Containment tree to a BPMN Collaboration diagram pane.


To create a Pool with a suppressed content

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  • On the Collaboration Diagram pallet,

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  • under Conversations

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  •  click Participant (Pool).


To add Lane to a Pool, do one of the following

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  • Right-click a Pool, point

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  • to Insert Inner Lanes

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  •  or Insert Lanes

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  •  and select a lane type.
  • Right-click a Pool header and click to

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  • select Insert Lanes.


To open a Pool Specification window

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  • Right-click the Pool header and

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  • select Specification.


To specify a model element represented by a Pool or Lane, do one of the following

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Note
A Pool can represent a BPMN Resource element or UML classifier element.
  • Click a Pool or Lane header on the diagram. On the Smart Manipulators toolbar click the Represents

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  •  button.
  • Open the Pool or Lane Specification window,

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  • click Represents

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  •  and select the represented elements from drop down list.

    Note

    Any type of element you can select only from Specification window.

  • Select a represented element in the Containment tree and drag it to the Pool or Lane header on the diagram.


To hide a Pool content on a diagram (to display a “black box” pool)

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  • Right-click a Pool header and from the shortcut menu select one of the following:
    • Suppress Pool Content
    • Symbol(s) Properties

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    •  and in the open dialog set

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    • the Suppress Pool Content property value to true.

A Pool with suppressed content that references a MultiInstance Participant will be displayed with a MultiInstance marker.


To display a MultiInstance marker on a Pool

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  1. Open the Specification window.

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  1. Click Represents

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  1.  and select a represented multi-instance Participant.

    Note

    A MultiInstance marker can be displayed only on a Poll with suppressed contents.


To review the Pool or Lane traceability information

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  • Open the Specification window,

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  • click Traceability.

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