Flow form
Editing in Visio — Building a flow rule from an
external Visio diagram
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You can create a flow rule from certain Visio diagrams directly, without the need to customize a template or redraw the rule using Process Commander shapes. This facility allows the shapes, terms, and notation used by your company to carry over into the Process Commander representation.
This facility also allows business analysts who are not trained as Process Commander developers or do not have access to Process Commander to contribute to applications.
Follow the process presented here to make an external Visio
VSD file becomes the value of a Custom Field
on the History tab of a flow rule.
Then, you can convert the Freeform shapes to specific Process
Commander tasks (such as Assignment,
Utility, and so on) with minimal changes in the
visual appearance of the diagram.
Flow as the
rule type. Enter a flow rule name, a RuleSet, and RuleSet
version.No/Draft. Click the Flow Editor toolbar button
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start Visio.Freeform as the type.
For each shape, choose a Process Commander type and click
Apply .
When one shape on the original diagram corresponds to
multiple Process Commander tasks, consider calling a subflow
to suppress the detail from the diagram.Yes. Test
the flow rule.At any time later, you can open the original, unaltered Visio diagram. The system saves this as a Custom Field value on the History tab.
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