BPMN Enhancement

In order to conform to the latest BPMN specification, our products are updated by introducing the changes listed below.

Id for the business modeling objects

An Id is a unique name that helps identifies a business modeling object from other objects within the Business Process Diagram.

Generating the Id

Starting from this version, when you create a business modeling object, an Id will be generated and assigned to that object. By default, the Id is a number produced in ascending order. But it is possible to define your own format for the generated Id. Here are the steps:

Select Tools > Options... from the main menu.
Select Diagramming from the list on the left of the Options dialog box.
Open Business Process tab.
Define your own format of Id in the ID Generator Format section. Id will be generated in the format $prefix$num-of-digits$suffix.

The following figure shows the Option dialog when editing the format of Id.

Showing the Id on diagram

By default, the Id is hidden in the diagram. To set the default option to be visible:

Select Tools > Options... from the main menu.
Select Diagramming from the list on the left of the Options dialog box.
Open Business Process tab.
Check the option Show ID of elements

The above steps causes any new business process diagram shows the Id on shapes inside the diagram.

To set the visibility of Ids for individual diagram, right-click on a business process diagram and select Presentation Options > Show as Label/Show below Caption from the popup menu.

Here are the results:
Show as Label

Show below Caption

Added Diagram Properties

Properties
Id: String
Version: String
Author: String
Language: String
ExpressLanguage: String
QueryLanguage: String
CreationDate: Date
Modificate: Date

Added Model

Model
Process

Added Model Properties

Model	Properties
Start Event	Id: String
Intermediate Event	Id: String
End Event	Id: String
Sub-Process	Id: String DiagramRef: Business Process Diagram ProcessRef: Process Input Properties: Collection of Expression Output properties: Collection of Expression
Task	Id: String
Gateway	Id: String
Pool	Id: String Process: Process
Lane	Id: String
Data Object	Id: String
Text Annotation	Id: String
Group	Id: String
Sequence Flow	Id: String
Message Flow	Id: String
Association	Id: String

Changed Model Properties

Model	Property	Old	New
Parallel Ordering	Flow condition	Default is Unspecified	Default is All
User Task	Performers	Multiplicity is 0..1	Multiplicity is 0..*
Manual Task	Performers	Multiplicity is 0..1	Multiplicity is 0..*

Removed Model Properties

Model	Property
Service Task	Instantiate

Resources

Visual Paradigm for UML Home
- http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/
Business Process Visual ARCHITECT
- http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/bpva/
DB Visual ARCHITECT
- http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/dbva/
SDE Home
- http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/sde/
Download Free Community Edition of Visual Paradigm for UML
- http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/vpumldownload.jsp?edition=ce
Download Business Process Visual ARCHITECT
- http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/bpva/bpvadownload.jsp?edition=me