Representing output documents

[DaveMere]

Hi there,

I'm working on representing business processes in an activity diagram. At certain points in this process, documents are output (in this case scientific papers but they can be any document at all). I have examples of these papers that I'd like to include in my model. What's the best way to represent a physical output such as a document in an activity model?

I see that deplayment models have a "document" object that I'm using for the moment. How best can I represent a process producing an document output and then carrying on with the process flow?

Many thanks in advance, Dave

[sargasso]

The, or better one of the, "correct" ways is to use object nodes as in http://sargasso.sphosting.com/Datastores.htm.

But having said that, remember that one of the major goals is to communicate, so if document objects or other artifact element work for your audience go with that.


bruce