Creating BPMN v2.0 elements from Visio

[Paolo F Cantoni]

My client has hundreds of business process diagrams created by external consultants in Visio using the Visio BPMN 1.2 stencils.

I had a go at importing them with the existing Visio importer and there were the obvious problems caused by the importer not understanding BPMN.

In the interim, because the diagrams were fairly simple, they came over reasonably well and I can see how to convert them via DB queries from what was imported to (more like) what they need to be.

I can get the shapes looking correct enough, but I can’t seem to convert them to EA BPMN v2.0 elements from the existing imported elements.  I thought all I would need to do was to fix up the Stereotypes record in t_xref and add an appropriate CustomProperties record in t_xref so that they looked like normal EA BPMN v2.0 elements.  However this doesn’t seem to be enough, EA won’t recognise them as BPMN elements and (consequently) won’t show the BPMN2.0 properties in the Dialog when the element is opened.

What else do I need to do to make EA recognise these imported elements as BPMN v2.0?


TIA,
Paolo