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
To create a Pool with a representing Resources from the Containment tree
To create a Pool with a suppressed content
To add Lane to a Pool, do one of the following
To open a Pool Specification window
To specify a model element represented by a Pool or Lane, do one of the following
A Pool can represent a BPMN Resource element or UML classifier element. |
Open the Pool or Lane Specification window, click Represents and select the represented elements from drop down list.
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)
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
Click Represents and select a represented multi-instance Participant.
A MultiInstance marker can be displayed only on a Poll with suppressed contents. |
To review the Pool or Lane traceability information