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