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A BPMN diagram can display subprocesses with different symbol properties. They are as follows:
- An expanded SubProcess can contain inner shapes.
- A collapsed SubProcess cannot display inner shapes. A plus sign (+) marker will be displayed for a collapsed subprocess.
If
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the Is Triggered By Event
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property of a SubProcess is set to true, it will call an Event SubProcess and will be drawn with a dashed border.
There are two specific types of SubProcesses:
- Transaction SubProcess. It is represented with double borders.
- AdHoc SubProcess. It is represented with an AdHoc marker on its shape.
To create a SubProcess
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Business Analyst perspective provide most popular SubProcess types. Full list of SubProcesses types you can have only in Business Modeler and Full Featured perspectives. |
- Open a BPMN Process diagram.
- On the diagram pallet, click the arrow next to the SubProcess and select the needed type of SubProcess.
To expand a SubProcess, do one of the following
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- Right-click a SubProcess shape and from the shortcut menu select Symbol(s) Properties. Then, in the Symbol Properties dialog, click to clear
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- the Suppress Content.
- Right-click a SubProcess shape and in the shortcut menu click to clear Suppress Content.
To collapse SubProcess, do one of the following
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- Right-click a SubProcess shape and then on the shortcut menu click to select Suppress Content.
- Right-click a SubProcess shape and from the shortcut menu select Symbol(s) Properties. Then in the Symbol Properties dialog click to select the Suppress Content.
To mark a created SubProcess as an event SubProcess, do one of the following
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- Right-click the SubProcess and on the shortcut menu click to
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- select Triggered By Event.
- Open the SubProcess Specification window. Select
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- the Triggered By Event
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- check box.
To convert a SubProcess to a Transaction SubProcess or AdHoc SubProcess
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- Right-click the SubProcess and from the shortcut menu
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- select Refactor
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- > Convert To
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- > More Specific
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- > AdHoc SubProcess
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- or Transaction SubProcess.
To convert a Transaction SubProcess or AdHoc SubProcess to a SubProcess
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- Right-click the Ad Hoc SubProcess or Transaction SubProcess and from shortcut menu select Refactor
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- > Convert To > More General> SubProcess.
To display a Start Event icon on a Event SubProcess
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- Create an expanded Event SubProcess.
- Create a Start Event to the Event SubProcess.
- Right-click the SubProcess and click to select
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- the Suppress Content
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- check box.
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