Adding activities to a BPD (deprecated)

In a business process definition (BPD), you can include activities that represent logical work that a specific team or a system completes.

Before you begin

To perform this task, you must be in the IBM® Process Designer desktop editor.

About this task

When you add activities, follow these guidelines:
  • Ensure that activities represent logical units of work that are assigned to a participant of a process.
  • Make multiple concurrent workflow steps that are assigned to one responsible role into one activity or task.
  • Use verb-noun statements to label activities, such as Submit job requisition.
  • Apply a top-down, left-to-right flow to your BPD so that it is easier to read.

Procedure

  1. Open the Process Designer desktop editor.
  2. Open a process application that contains a BPD.
  3. In the Designer view, click the Diagram tab.
  4. Drag an activity from the palette and drop it onto the diagram.
  5. In the Properties view, enter a name for the activity.
  6. Click Save in the main toolbar.

What to do next

After you add an activity to a BPD, you can change the type by selecting the activity and choosing the implementation in the properties.