Searching BPMN Sub processes

[gcoleman0828]

Hey everyone,

Hoping I am just over looking this because it seems like it should be easy to search for.

I have quite a few Business Processes that have diagrams attached to them. I have a common area where I put other processes that I noticed I am creating the workflow over and over again. I am then using the sub process feature of an Activity to link them to a parent process.

I want to be able to find everywhere that the activity (sub process) is being used. I tried the "Find in All diagrams" option but it comes up empty.

Any thoughts in how I can determine how often it is being referenced?

Thanks,
Gregg

[wivel]

Hi Gregg

Can you elaborate on how you reuse the processes using sub processes? I ask, since sub processes are used to break down processes sin smaller bits and that the sub process itself is not reusable. To reuse processes, you need to use the call invocation, as far as I remember, and then link from that to the 'real' process you want to reuse.

I will provide you with a more detailed description later, when I have more time.

Henrik 

[gcoleman0828]

Hey wivel,

Sorry for the late response. I have a set of parent processes that is being used to show the customer journey through a banking branch. There are several parts of the processes that is duplicated over and over. In the interest of simplicity, I created this common process as a sub process with a new Diagram. The new Diagram has an Activity that is set as a callactivity. This Activity is then linked the top level diagram and I drag it into each parent process.

Hopefully that all makes sense. I followed a video from Sparx that I found online. The issue was that I was unable to find all diagrams that links back to the sub process using the "Search where Diagrams being used" feature.

I think by using the Activity Shape as the reference instead of the business process i am able to search now, but if there is a better way to do this, please let me know.
Gregg