Exporting BPMN 2.0

[preet]

Hi, I am fairly new to using EA. We are documenting business process flow in BPMN 2.0 notation. I also capture key additional details about tasks and activities in the Notes section, in addition to visually capturing the flow. However when I extract/print diagram to PDF those details are lost. Since all users dont have EA installed on their machine, is there a way to capture notes details as part of the export so information can be easily shared and validated? Please advise.

[Geert Bellekens]

There are a number of option.
You can
- put the notes on "linked notes" on the diagram and just print the diagram
- Export the model to HTML
- Generate RTF documents based on the model.

Geert

[Steven]

I would recommend to use the repository option of EA so all your users can see and use the same model. That is if everybody has access upon the same network/server.
Look for repository within the EA help file for more intel to see if this is what you would like.

The other thing: not every edition of EA has the option for using the repository. See this page for all the details if your edition is capable of using the repository --> http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/index.html#editions

[qwerty]

... when I extract/print diagram to PDF those details are lost...

How that? When you print a diagram all visible details should be on the printout. What are you missing?

.. all users dont have EA installed on their machine...

You probably mean "not all users have EA installed". However, I recommend EALite for that purpose. It's free of cost. Alternatively create a HTML report and publish that on your local server.

q.