How to Use Secondary Pools for BPMN Task?
Under normal circumstances, we assign merely one pool to a task in BPD. However, in some cases, you may want a task being able to be done by more than one role, in this case, you can assign secondary pools to the task. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to assign secondary pools to a task in BPD with Visual Paradigm.
- Download Simple-Clinic.vpp. You can also find this file at the bottom of this tutorial.
- Open the downloaded .vpp file in Visual Paradigm. To open a project, select Project > Open from the application toolbar.
- Open the business process diagram Patient Registration.
- If you find the Check Body Temperature task can be done by either the nurse or the patient, you can assign a secondary pool to the task.
- Right-click on the Check Body Temperature task and select Open Specification... from the pop-up menu to open the Task Specification window.
- In the Task Specification window, open the General tab. Click the plus button next to Secondary pools.
- The available pools are listed in the Select Secondary Pools window. Check the Patient pool and then click the OK button. Subsequently, click the OK button in the Task Specification window.
- If you later decide that checking body temperature should be done by the nurse only, you can remove the Patient pool by clicking the small cross button next to it.
