Exporting artifacts

You can export your Blueworks Live spaces and artifacts for analysis, printing, or importing into other accounts or modeling environments.

To export a space, process, policy, decision, or user group, click the drop-down dropdown menu control control next to the name of the object you want to export and choose the appropriate export format. To export a glossary, open the glossary and click Export Glossary.

Table 1. Supported export formats by artifact type
Blueworks Live artifact Supported export formats Notes
Space Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) Contains information about each of the artifacts within the space and provides a link to each artifact. Version 2.0 format improves the organization and layout of the Excel file and includes artifact IDs. If you choose to export subspaces and use V2.0, you can choose to export the space and all its subspaces to a single file. Otherwise, each subspace is exported to a different file.
Process
  • Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)
  • Microsoft Word (.docx)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt)
  • XML Process Definition Language 2.1 (.xpdl)
  • Business Process Model and Notation (.bpmn)
The Microsoft Excel export includes:
  • A list of process elements
  • A separate worksheet page for each property type, such as Business Motivations, Stakeholders, and Inputs
  • Links to any policies that are associated with the process
  • Glossary values used in the process
  • Text annotations
The Microsoft Word export includes:
  • Process details, including milestones, activities, and decisions
  • A link to the process in Blueworks Live
  • Activity details for each activity, if this option was selected during export
  • Links to any policies and attachments that are associated with the process
  • A list of glossary items that are used in the process and their descriptions
  • Any comments made on the process
  • Text annotations
  • The process diagram, if this option was selected during export
  • If the process contains linked processes, and this option was selected during export, the linked processes are also included, with the same amount of detail as the calling process
The Microsoft PowerPoint export includes:
  • The process diagram
  • The discovery map
  • An appendix containing the process and activities details
The XPDL 2.1 export includes:
  • XML process definition details and graphical information that can be imported into another Blueworks Live account or into another workflow product that supports XPDL 2.1
The BPMN 2.0 export includes:
  • BPMN process definition details that can be imported into another Blueworks Live account or into another workflow product that supports BPMN 2.0, for example, IBM® Business Process Manager
  • BPMN2 Diagram Interchange (DI), which covers visual information such as node positioning and bounds, line ports, and labels
  • For the BPMN import-export mapping, see the content in BPMN Import-Export mapping .
Process diagram Portable Document Format (PDF) This export includes a .pdf file of the process diagram that you can save or print.
Discovery map Portable Document Format (PDF) This export includes a .pdf file of the discovery map that you can save or print.
Documentation view Printable format This printable format includes a numbered list of process milestones and activities. Details and comments are included only if the Show All Details and Show All Comments option are selected in the toolbar.
Policy Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) The Microsoft Excel export includes:
  • The policy description
  • Hyperlinks added to the policy
  • Links to any attachments that are associated with the policy
  • Tags used in the policy
Decision Microsoft Excel (.xlsx), Microsoft Word (.docx) The Microsoft Excel export includes:
  • A list of decision elements
  • A separate worksheet page for each property type, such as Business Motivations, Stakeholders, and Inputs
  • Decision tables
  • Links to any policies that are associated with the decision
  • Glossary values used in the decision
The Microsoft Word export includes:
  • Decision details
  • A link to the decision in Blueworks Live
  • Links to any policies and attachments that are associated with the decision
  • A list of glossary items that are used in the decision and their descriptions
  • Any comments made on the decision
  • The decision diagram, if this option was selected during export
Playback Microsoft Word (.docx) The Microsoft Word export is either one specific playback, or all playbacks for this process. For each playback, it includes:
  • A diagram that includes all activities and milestones, and highlights the activities that are defined in the playback path
  • Properties that you select when you export: all defined properties, no properties, or the currently selected analysis property and all accumulated properties for this playback (cost, cycle time, work time, wait time, and all custom numeric properties)
  • Linked processes, if you choose to include them when you export and if they have a playback subflow defined. See Creating and running process playbacks for information about defining playback subflows.
Glossary Microsoft Excel (.xlsx), Microsoft Word (.docx) Contains a list of all glossary items, including name, description, visibility setting, item type, data type, and contents. Each category is exported to a different worksheet.

To export only the values from a specific category, open the category and click Export.

User group Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) The Microsoft Excel export includes:
  • User group details
  • Details of the user members of pre-defined user groups
  • Details of the user members and nested group members of custom user groups
  • Tags used in custom user groups
User Service ID export Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) The export includes:
  • Username
  • Email Address
  • User Service ID name
  • Status of the user service ID
  • Category of the service ID
  • Is User Service ID allowed or not for the user
  • Is User Service ID enabled at account level
  • User Service ID updated date
  • User Service ID updated by
Search results CSV file Contains the results of a search, according to the applied filters and scopes. The CSV export includes the following details:
  • Matched artifact name
  • Matched artifact description
  • Artifact ID
  • Artifact type
  • Published
  • Status
  • Following
  • Last modified by
  • Last modified date
  • Space
  • Tags