Adding lanes to a BPD (deprecated)

A Business Process Definition (BPD) can include a lane for each system or team of users who participate in a process. A lane is the container for all the activities to be carried out by a specific team or by a system.

1. Open the Process Designer desktop editor (deprecated).
2. Open a process application that contains a BPD.
3. Drag a lane from the palette and drop it onto the diagram.
4. In the Properties view, enter a name for the lane.
5. Optional: You can also associate a default team with the lane.

   When a user task is added to this lane, the initial assignment for the task is the default lane team. If you do not specify a default lane team, the default team is All Users.

6. Optional: You can also create a lane as a system lane, indicating that activities within it are to be completed by an IBM Business Process Manager system. To make a lane a system lane, select the lane in the diagram then select Is System Lane in the Properties view. Although you can create a system task in non-system lanes, any new tasks in the system lane are created as system tasks by default. After a system task is created, if you move the task to a non-system lane, for example a lane associated with a team, it retains a system task type.

   A system lane user runs system tasks in system lanes. If the team that is associated with the system lane has multiple members, the first system lane user who is a member of the team is selected for running the task.

7. To reorder lanes with respect to one another, right-click a lane and select Move Lane Up or Move Lane Down.
8. Click Save in the main toolbar.