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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: contrem on October 26, 2007, 03:13:34 am

Title: Does the EA BPMN MDG fully support BPMN 1.0??
Post by: contrem on October 26, 2007, 03:13:34 am

I've got the latest version of EA (7.0.817) and have just started to look at the BPMN profile. Comparing what seems to be available with the BPMN 1.0 spec there seem to be some things missing from EA, the omissions seem to be mainly around the stereotypes for the different objects.

For example, in BPMN, EA supports the three Flow Dimensions for an Event (Start, Intermediate, End), but doesn't seem to support the Tyep Dimension (Message, Timer, Error, etc).

Am I missing something?

Title: Re: Does the EA BPMN MDG fully support BPMN 1.0??
Post by: «Midnight» on October 26, 2007, 04:57:55 am

Yes, these are set via tagged values. Open the tagged value window and select an event. You should see tagged values - the ones you'll usually need tend to provide drop-down lists with appropriate values - which you can set to indicate the details you need.

Once you do this the elements will redraw themselves as necessary.

You might want to examine the shape scripts behind these elements, if only for fun. Search the forum for directions on how to obtain these.

David

PS: If you mean the OMG specification of BPMN, that would be version 1.1 - see the OMG site for why this is so.

Title: Re: Does the EA BPMN MDG fully support BPMN 1.0??
Post by: KP on October 28, 2007, 02:12:46 pm

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PS: If you mean the OMG specification of BPMN, that would be version 1.1 - see the OMG site for why this is so.

MDG Technology for BPMN v1.4 is based on BPMN 1.0

BPMN 1.1 has a number of changes (e.g. distinguishes between "catching" and "throwing" events) which we will address in a future release.

Title: Re: Does the EA BPMN MDG fully support BPMN 1.0??
Post by: «Midnight» on October 28, 2007, 02:19:47 pm

Thanks for clearing this up Neil.

Title: Re: Does the EA BPMN MDG fully support BPMN 1.0??
Post by: contrem on October 31, 2007, 09:20:20 am

Thanks for your replies. It all makes perfect sense now! All I need now is for EA to import/export BPMN diagrams as BPMN rather then XMI and I'll be able to convince this organisation to use it for all our modelling!