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
On the Collaboration Diagram pallet, click Horizontal Pool and select a needed type of Pool.
Select Resources and click OK.
To create a Pool with a representing Resources from the Containment tree
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
On the Collaboration Diagram pallet, under Conversations click Participant (Pool).
To add Lane to a Pool, do one of the following
Right-click a Pool, point to Insert Inner Lanes or Insert Lanes and select a lane type.
Right-click a Pool header and click to select Insert Lanes.
To open a Pool Specification window
Right-click the Pool header and select Specification.
To specify a model element represented by a Pool or Lane, do one of the following
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 button.
Open the Pool or Lane Specification window, click Represents 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)
Right-click a Pool header and from the shortcut menu select one of the following:
Suppress Pool Content
Symbol(s) Properties and in the open dialog set 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
Open the Specification window.
Click Represents 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
Open the Specification window, click Traceability.
