BPMN Business Process Diagram Linking

[Tim Hosking]

Hi,

I have a problem with making a diagram the "default" under a business process. I created a couple of diagrams and then realised I wanted to create a higher level process above those diagrams. So I created the higher level diagram and want the business processes on that higher level diagram to link to the existing diagrams, rather than the empty diagram EA creates for me. I hope that makes sense. I dragged my existing diagram to be under the business process represented on the higher level diagram. But when I double-click on that process symbol the lower level diagram does not open. Is there a way to tell EA that the diagram is linked to this process?

I suspect this is not an issue just for business process diagrams. I must be missing something about what makes EA link a diagram to an element.

Can anyone help please?  

[KP]

Right-click the element on the diagram and select New Diagram > Select Composite Diagram. (EA 10 and later, I believe)

[Tim Hosking]

Darn, I'm using 9.3 still. We are supposed to be going to 11 soon. I'll have to wait. There's no other way to fool EA?

I guess I can get it to create the empty diagram and then re-populate it with everything from the existing diagram.

[KP]

The old trick used to be to make the element non-composite, move the target diagram (and no other diagram) underneath it, then make the element composite again. It creates a hyperlink to the first diagram it finds underneath it. Then you can move the diagrams back to where they came from and the hyperlink will still work. You can see why we introduced the new command