Model editor

You can create process models, application landscapes, organizational landscapes, or process landscapes by using our online model editor.

Editor interface

In the main work area you can:

• Pan and zoom into the model
• Select an element to edit its properties in the sidebar
• Activate the element’s contextual menu

Contextual menu

When you select a model item a contextual menu appears, providing a shortcut to the most used actions:

Available commands vary depending on the item type. Here you can see a list of the main ones:

| | Opens the cross-reference view | | Delete the current element | | Activate the global connect tool | | Display additional configuration settings for the selected element | | Add a comment to the current element | | Attach a document to the current element | | Change the color of the current element | | Add a new element (of the selected type) tot the model and connect it to the currently selected element | | Link a decision table to the current element

Model versions

It lists the stored model revisions. You can:

• Open and review each model version
• Activate the “Model compare” tool, you can find more information in the Compare chapter

Command palette

The command palette contains all the main commands and tools to be applied to the currently opened model.

Tools section

Model section

The Model section varies depending on the currently opened model. It contains an “add element” command for each of the item types that can be added to the current model.

Symbols

Task

Primarily, task types are intended to model processes that are technically executable. Task types are applied infrequently in practice.

You can define the specific type of a task from the configuration settings , in its contextual menu.

Loop

A loop task repeats until a defined condition either applies or ceases to apply.

You can specify that a task is a loop task from the configuration settings , by selecting the icon.

Multiple instance

A multiple instance instantiates repeatedly and can run in sequence or in parallel.

You can specify that a task has multiple instances from the configuration , by selecting if the task is sequential or if the task is parallelized.

Subprocess

A subprocess describes a detailed sequence, but it takes no more space in the diagram of the parent process than a task does. Both tasks and subprocesses are part of the activities class and are therefore represented as rectangles with rounded corners. The only difference is the plus sign, indicating a stored detailed sequence for the subprocess:

You can specify that a task is a subprocess from the configuration settings . You can either choose to collapse or expand the subprocess.

Ad hoc

Use the Ad hoc subprocess to mark a segment in which the contained activities (tasks or subprocesses) can:

• Run in any order
• Run several times
• Be skipped

You can define an Ad hoc subprocess from the configuration settings , by selecting icon.

Gateway

You can define the specific type of a gateway from the configuration settings , in its contextual menu.

Data

Events

You can define the specific type of an event from the configuration settings , in its contextual menu.

For detailed information check the BPMN Reference

Properties sidebar

Use the Properties sidebar to review and edit all the properties of the currently selected item (properties can vary depending on the type of item selected):

• General: name and optional description of the item, plus associated systems and roles defined in the cross-references
• Others: RACI related to roles defined in the Organization landscape, plus eventual User-Defined Properties for which you can define the name and the value

Cross-reference

By selecting in its contextual menu, you can set the cross-references of an item (references can vary depending on the type of item selected).

You can associate the item with:

• Systems, previously defined in the Application landscape
• Roles, previously defined in the Organization landscape

After, you cn see and modify the associated elements.