Define working procedures for business tasks in a business process diagram

January 11, 2010
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A business process diagram is mainly formed by activities like tasks and subprocesses. Each of them represents work that an organization perform in a process. In this tutorial, we will see how to define step-by-step procedure that need to do when performing tasks. The same technique can be applied on sub-process, choreography task and choreography sub-process.


  1. Download Simple Post Office.vpp from the bottom of this tutorial.
  2. Open Simple Post Office.vpp in BP-VA.
  3. Open bpd Parcel Collection.
  4. Select the task Lookup Parcel in pool Post Office Officer.
    select task
  5. The procedure editor at the bottom of diagram is activated. If you do not see the pane appear, right click on the background of diagram and select Show Procedure Editor in popup menu.
    procedure editor
  6. Click on the first row of the editor, next to the caption "1.", for entering the first step of the procedure of lookup parcel.
  7. Enter Get the tracking number from parcel owner.
    enter step1
  8. Press Enter to move to step 2.
  9. Enter Lookup the parcle with the tracking number.
  10. Press Enter again to move to step 3.
  11. Enter Bring the parcel to counter. This completes the definition of working procedure for the task Lookup Parcel.
    complete lookup parcel working procedure
  12. Select the task Pick-up Parcel in diagram.
    select pick up parcel
  13. Follow the previous steps to enter step 1 Check for the correctness of parcel and step 2 Fill in the delivery slip.
    enter pick up parcel proc
  14. Press Enter to add a step.
  15. We need to specify the content the parcel owner need to fill-in in the delivery slip. Press Tab to add a sub-step 2.1, and enter Fill in recipient name. Press Enter to fill in sub-step 2.2 Sign off.
    enter sub steps
  16. Save the project. This ends the tutorial.

Resources

  1. Simple Post Office.vpp
Comments (2)

How to show procedure text in PDF report

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) ??

Re: How to show procedure text in PDF report

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. :-)

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