A graphical representation promoted by the Business Process Management Initiative of the Object Management Group, BPMN provides a graphical notation for expressing business processes in a business process diagram.

The BPMN specification also defines the relationships between the graphical elements and process execution languages such as BPEL.

For more information on BPMN, see www.bpmn.org. The BPMI organization, an affiliate of the Object Management Group, is presented at www.bpmi.org.

Process Commander includes a standard Visio stencil for BPMN shapes as a binary file rule named webwb.BPMStencil.biw.

• To use these shapes for every new flow you create, select Edit > Preferences. In the Edit group of preferences, set the Stencil value to BPMN. Click Save.
• To use these shapes for a single flow, enter BPMN as the value of the Using Template field on the New form, as you create a new flow rule.

Many constructs in BPMN notation have different names than Process Commander normally uses for the same concept:

• A BPMN activity is similar to a task or shape in Process Commander
• A BPMN process is similar to a flow rule
• A BPMN transition is similar to a connector arrow on a flow rule

This table shows the BPMN task shapes and the corresponding standard shapes. The Correspondence shape in BPMN notation is equivalent to a Utility shape that calls the standard Work-.CorrNew activity., Shapes not listed in this table (for example Fork) use a common icon in both the BPMN and standard templates.

Shape Name BPMN con Standard icon Assignment Assignment Service Correspondence None Flow Flow-End Integrator Notify Start Spinoff   Ticket Utility

Different task shapes appear in any BPMN flow rules that were created in versions before Version 5.2. However, the older shapes are functionally identical to the V5.3 shapes. If you update a BPMN flow rule created in an earlier version, the updated flow may contain both older task shapes and V5.3 task shapes. This does not affect flow execution.

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	Flow rules — Completing the New dialog box Developer portal — Setting preferences

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