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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Erik on April 07, 2009, 04:10:14 am
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It would be nice if I were able to use a UML Actor in a BPMN process as a pool. There could be a "Display as pool (or lane)" option on the Actor when on a BPMN diagram surface.
Also, it would be great if there was a relationship between a pool (or lane) and it`s contents (other than owed) so that we could take the activities and classify them elsewhere in the model.
Also, is there a difference between the activities (from uml activity diagrams) and the activities (in the BPMN diagrams) ?
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It would be nice if I were able to use a UML Actor in a BPMN process as a pool. There could be a "Display as pool (or lane)" option on the Actor when on a BPMN diagram surface.
Because we implement BPMN as a UML profile, the BPMN Pool is an extended UML Activity Partition. So if you want to, you can do all the UML Activity Partition stuff like Ctrl+L to define its classifier. The classifier can be an Actor.
Also, it would be great if there was a relationship between a pool (or lane) and it`s contents (other than owed) so that we could take the activities and classify them elsewhere in the model.
You will need to create those manually. I'd suggest a Dependency, suitably stereotyped (e.g. «contains»?)
Also, is there a difference between the activities (from uml activity diagrams) and the activities (in the BPMN diagrams) ?
The BPMN ones are extended UML ones, with a stereotype, several tagged values and a shape script.