0 Business Process Model and Notation Business Process Diagram
The Business Process Diagram describes a Process i.e. a sequence or flow of activities in an organization with the objective of carrying out work. Processes can be defined at any level from enterprise-wide processes to processes performed by a single person. Low-level processes can be grouped together to achieve a common business goal. Top-Level Event SubProcess Interrupting Event SubProcess NonInterrupting Start Events
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An Event is something that happens during the course of a process. Events affect the flow of the process and usually have a cause or an impact. A Start Event indicates place where a process starts (e.g. after receiving message, when condition is met, or at a scheduled time). An Intermediate Event happens between start and end of a process. It may be part of a process flow (either throwing or catching triggers such as Message) or represent exception/compensation handling (when placed on the Task/Sub-Process boundary). An End Event indicates a process end. It may show e.g. that a certain process path ends with an error or sends a signal for other processes. The new types of Events in the BPMN 2.0 are the types Escalation and Parallel Multiple as well as the whole categories Event Sub-Process (Interrupting and NonInterrupting) and Boundary Non-Interrupting.
There are several types of Activities: A Task is an atomic activity within a process flow. It is used when the work in the process cannot be broken down to a finer level of detail. A Sub-Process is an activity whose internal details have been modeled in a separate model. A Transaction is a specialized type of subprocess. It allows describing what happens if a whole set of activities is cancelled or interrupted by an error. Event Sub-Processes allow to handle an event within the context of a given subprocess or process (either by interrupting the process or running in parallel to it). They are not part of a normal process flow, as they start only when their associated Start Event is triggered.
Different types of Tasks are visualized by markers (in top left corner): Service (automated e.g. by a web service) Send (sends a Message) Manual (performed without software aid) User (workflow task with human performer) Receive (waits for a Message) Business Rule (interacts with BR Engine)
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Script (executed by a business process engine) There are also markers that indicate characteristics of Activities: Sub-Process Multi-Instance: Loop Parallel Ad Hoc Sequential Compensation End Events
A Call Activity identifies a point in the process where a global process or a Global Task is (re)used.
Choreography Diagram The Choreography Diagram defines a sequence of interactions between Participants. I need my medicine
Connectors A Choreography Task is an atomic Activity in a choreography process. It represents an interaction between two Participants Sequence Flow defines the execution order of activities. Conditional Flow - has Default Flow - the default branch a condition that defines to be chosen of all other conditions whether or not the flow evaluate to false. is used. Data Association - used to move data between Data Objects, Properties, and inputs and outputs of Activities, Processes, and Global Tasks. Message Flow - used to show the flow of Messages between two Participants that are prepared to send and receive them. Data Object Collection
A Data Input is an external input for the entire Process. It can be read by an Activity. A Data Output is a variable available as result of the entire Process.
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I want to see the doctor
I feel sick
A Sub-Choreography is an atomic Activity in a choreography process. It represents an Interaction between two Participants
A Data Object represents information flowing through the Process, such as business documents, e-mails, letters. A Collection Data Object represents a collection of information (e.g. a list of order items). A Data Store is a place where the Process can read or write data, e.g. a database or a filling cabinet. It persists beyond the lifetime of the Process instance. A Message is used to depict the contents of a communication between two Participants.
Go see the doctor
Get medicine and leave
Here is your medicine
A Call Choreography identifies a point in the process where a Global Choreography or a Global Choreography Task is used.
Conversation Diagram The Conversation Diagram shows logical relation of message exchanges. In general, it is a simplified version of Collaboration, but conversation diagrams do maintain all the features of a Collaboration. In particular, processes can appear within the Participants (Pools) of conversation diagrams, to show how Conversations and Activities are related. A Conversation Link is used to connect to and from Participants.
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Lane 1 An Association is used to connect information and Artifacts with Flow Objects. Lane 2
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A Conversation represents a set of Message Flows grouped together. A Sub-Conversation is a conversation node that is a hierarchical division within the parent Collaboration.
The Group object is an Artifact that provides a visual mechanism to group elements of a diagram informally.
A Call Conversation identifies a place in the Conversation where a global Conversation is used.
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A Pool is the graphical representation of a Participant in a Collaboration. A Lane is a sub-partition within a Process (often within a Pool) and will extend the entire length of the Process level.
Text Annotations are a mechanism for a modeler to provide additional information for the reader of a BPMN Diagram.
Collaboration Diagram & Combined Views
The Collaboration package contains classes which are used for modeling Collaborations, which is a collection of Participants shown as Pools, their interactions as shown by Message Flows, and MAY include processes within the Pools and/or Choreographies between the Pools.
Credit Agency Event-based Gateway - is always followed by catching events or receive tasks. Sequence flow is routed to the subsequent event/task which happens first.
Gateways Gateways are used to control how the Process flows (how tokens flow) through Sequence Flows as they converge and diverge within a Process. The Gateway controls the flow of both diverging and converging Sequence Flows.
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Parallel Gateway - when used to split the sequence flow, all outgoing branches are activated simultaneously. When merging parallel branches it waits for all incoming branches to complete before triggering the outgoing flow.
Exclusive Gateway - when splitting, it routes the sequence flow to exactly one of the outgoing branches. When merging, it awaits one incoming branch to complete before triggering the outgoing flow.
Inclusive Gateway - when splitting, one or more branches are activated. All active incoming branches must complete before merging. Credit Request
Exclusive Event-based Gateway (instantiate) - Each occurrence of a subsequent event starts a new process instance.
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Complex Gateway - Complex merging and branching behavior that is not captured by other gateways.
Parallel Event-based Gateway (instantiate) - The occurrence of all subsequent events starts a new process instance.
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