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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Roger A. Shepherd on April 04, 2006, 04:38:09 pm

Title: BPMN (advanced notations)
Post by: Roger A. Shepherd on April 04, 2006, 04:38:09 pm

Hello,

1st off, great forum...

I am a new BA to the company I now work for. This company has EA and I downloaded the BPMN Add-In.  
My apologies if I am missing something simple.....

I was modeling BPMN in Visio before this job, and I was using a Visio stencil that included all the BPMN notation nodes from the BPMN 1.1 spec
Now, when I opened up the BPMN Add-In in EA, to my surprise, I am only seeing the core notation.  Just the basics of Activities, Sequence Flow, Message Flow, Pools, Lanes, and Events, etc.
However, I didnt see nodes for the various kinds of events, activities and gateways that are represented within the BPMN 1.1 spec.  (For example: Message, Compensation, Link and Timer events,  Complex, Inclusive and Exclusive Gateways, Collapsed Subprocesses, Loop Activities, Ad-Hoc Activities...to name a few)
Am I missing something or not accessing something correctly in the software to get the additional notation?   Or is the BPMN Add-In in its infancy, meaning additional nodes will become available in a later release.
In order to use EA how we want use it, we would need the additional available notation elements.
Are they available?
Thanks!

Title: Re: BPMN (advanced notations)
Post by: KP on April 04, 2006, 05:00:16 pm

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(For example: Message, Compensation, Link and Timer events,

For Start and Intermediate Events, you need to set the Trigger tagged value; for End Events, the Result tagged value.

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 Complex, Inclusive and Exclusive Gateways,

For gateways, the GatewayType tagged value (and maybe XORType)

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Collapsed Subprocesses, Loop Activities, Ad-Hoc Activities...to name a few)

There are a number of tagged values, e.g. ActivityType, LoopType, AdHoc, IsCompensation etc.

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Am I missing something or not accessing something correctly in the software to get the additional notation?  

These are described in the BPMN Add-in help file. "Add-Ins | BPMN Technology | Help" to open the help file and go to the page "Using BPMN | Tagged Values".

HTH

Neil

Title: Re: BPMN (advanced notations)
Post by: Roger A. Shepherd on April 05, 2006, 10:46:57 am

Thank You for your help, that pretty much took care of my posted questions.  I see how the graphic nodes change dynamicaly based on the tagged values entered. Very pleased to see this functionality.