Define working procedures for business tasks in a business process diagram

A business process diagram is mainly formed by activities, such as tasks and subprocesses. Each of them represents work that an organization performs in a process. In this tutorial, we will see how to define step-by-step procedure when performing tasks. The same technique can be applied on sub-process, choreography task and choreography sub-process.

September 15, 2010
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  1. Download The Post Office.vpp from this tutorial in advance.
  2. Open The Post Office.vpp with BP-VA.
  3. In Parcel Collection, select Lookup Parcel task in Post Office Officer pool.
    select task
  4. The procedure editor at the bottom of diagram is activated. If the pane doesn't show up, right click on the diagram's background and select Show Procedure Editor from pop-up menu.
    procedure editor
  5. Enter the first step of the procedure of lookup parcel in the first row of the editor as Get the tracking number from parcel owner.
    step one
  6. Press Enter key to move to step 2. Enter Lookup the parcel with the tracking number.
  7. Press Enter key to move to step 3. Enter Bring the parcel to counter. This completes the definition of working procedure for the task Lookup Parcel.
    steps completed
  8. Next, select Pick-up Parcel task on the diagram.
    select task
  9. Follow the previous steps to enter step 1 Check for the correctness of parcel and step 2 Fill in the delivery slip.
    fill step
  10. Press Enter to add a step. When we need to specify the content the parcel owner needs to fill-in in the delivery slip, we can add a sub-step. Press Tab key or click Increase Indent button to add a sub-step 2.1, and enter Fill in recipient name. Press Enter to fill in sub-step 2.2 Sign off.
    fill sub step
  11. Save the project. This ends the tutorial.

Resources

  1. The Post Office.vpp

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Comments (3)

written by Mireille Roose on January 12, 2010

This is really a great new feature, but how can I make the added procedure text visible in a PDF-report or a HTML-report (using the Project Publisher) ??

written by Jick on January 13, 2010

When you generate a report (HTML/PDF/Word), or run publisher, the procedure text will be shown in report automatically. You don't need to do any steps extra.

Make sure you are running the latest version (VP-UML 7.2, AG 2.2, SDE 5.2, BP-VA 3.2) in order to use this feature. :-)

written by Gildas on October 31, 2011

Grazi for mkniag it nice and EZ.

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