Working in the BPMN diagram environment
Here, we will be working with the BPMN diagram environment, which basically uses the different shapes that Visio provides. The basic UI does not differ from other Visio diagrams, so on the right-hand side, there is a drawing page in landscape (in the size you selected when you selected the template), and on the left-hand side, there is a stencil with the BPMN basic shapes.
The BPMN stencil delivers the following shapes:
Figure 4.4 – The shapes in the BPMN Basic Shapes stencil
The shapes in the stencil are as follows:
- Task: Describes a task or process step
- Gateway: Describes a branch or decision
- Intermediate Event: An event between a Start and End event
- End Event: An indicator that the process is ending/has ended
- Start Event: An event that initiates the process
- Collapsed Sub-Process: A placeholder for a full process, described somewhere else (usually another file or page...
