Changing BPMN Element Attributes

Name

Click here to insert or change the Name of the related element. Generated elements (like e.g. message) cannot be renamed.

All BPMN elements.

Description

If you want to insert a description for your element, click here to open a text editor where you can enter and format your text:

All BPMN elements.

Symbol Type

The attribute Symbol Type displays the type of the current element.

Open the drop-down menu to change the symbol type. Possible options are the other BPMN element types of the same element category.

All BPMN elements.

Form

Attribute Form is only available for the element User Task. Use the selection list to assign a form to the user task. All forms you have created within the same service are displayed in the list:

Once you have selected a form, an icon appears. It allows you to open the selected form directly:

Refer to chapter Modeling Forms for further information about the creation of forms.

User Task

Image

It is possible to create images on the diagram pane. Use element Image (BPMN) from the elements toolbar. Once created, use the element’s attribute Image to upload a picture into the empty frame or insert a link to an existing picture.

Image (BPMN)

Roles

Attribute Roles is only available for the element Lane. Click Open role editor to assign different roles to the lane. The number of roles assigned to a lane is then displayed in the attributes panel.

• Lane

• Role-based Authorization Concept

Sequence Flow Type

Attribute Sequence Flow Type is only available for the element Relation. Most relations can only be of regular type. In these cases the sequence flow type Regular is displayed in read-only mode.

There is one exception for outgoing flows of exclusive gateways.
On these flows, the attribute Sequence Flow Type shows you a selection list with two options to define the type of the sequence flow in the attributes panel:

• Regular: Normal process flow. If you are using an Exclusive Gateway, you have to define the condition on the regular outgoing sequence flow(s).

• Default sequence flow: If the conditions of all other flows are not fulfilled, the flow marked as default is used. The default sequence flow is unconditional (without execution).

• Relation

• (Exclusive Gateway)

Timeout

Attribute Timeout is only available for the Timer Event.

To set the duration of the timer, the event should be trigged by a persisted property of type integer or datetime. You have two options to set the timeout in the attributes panel:

• Integer: Define the number of seconds the event has to wait.

• Datetime: Define the absolute datetime when the event should fire.

Timer Event

Timer

Attribute Timer is only available for the Timer Start Event.

Hover over the timer settings to display a detailed settings view:

To define the timer settings, click Open Timer to open the timer editor. For detailed explanations see How to Use the Scheduler/Timer.

Timer Start Event

Trigger Events

Attribute Trigger Events is only available for the elements Message Event and Plain Event (as a boundary event) and for the element User Task. Use the selection list to assign which event triggers the default process flow of a BPMN process. The pop-up also contains a filter that you can use to search for a specific event:

• Message Event

• Plain Event

• User Task

Allow Parallel Executions

If checked, each time a scheduler pattern matches, the scheduler activity diagram is executed - even if another execution is already running.
If not checked, the next execution cycle is suppressed if an execution diagram is already being run.

Checked

Year(s)

Insert a positive integer or a pattern.

*

Month(s)

Use numbers 1 to 12 or a pattern.

*

Weekdays(s)

Valid input:

• Mon or Monday

• Tue or Tuesday

• Wed or Wednesday

• Thur or Thursday

• Fri or Friday

• Sat or Saturday

• Sun or Sunday

• a pattern

*

Day(s)

Depending on the month, valid input are numbers from 1 to 31 or a pattern.

*

Hours(s)

Use 0 to 23 or a pattern.

*

Minute(s)

Use 0 to 59 or a pattern.

0

Seconds

Use 0 to 59 or a pattern.

0

Repeat Interval

Enter a valid time duration expression (see below). Refer to Time Durations for detailed information.
This setting defines the time interval between two calls of the timer action.

-

Occurences

Insert a positive integer to define the count of repetitions. If you want the timer to be endless, check Always (default).

Always

First Occurence

Enter a valid time duration expression (see below). Refer to Time Durations for detailed information.
This setting defines the wait interval after service start before the timer is executed for the first time.

0 seconds