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Advanced shapes in a flow

You can add advanced shapes to a flow diagram in Process Modeler. By understanding the different functionality that is provided by each shape, you can define a sequence of events in a flow that accurately models a business processes in your application.

The following table describes the advanced shapes for flow diagrams.

Name

Description

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Assignment Service

Synchronously connects your application to an external system to send or receive data and waits for a response before moving to the next step in the flow.

Integrator

Asynchronously connects your application to an external system to send or receive data and does not wait for a response before moving to the next step in the flow.

Assign to robot queue If you are using Robotic Process Automation (RPA), identifies the robotic work queue from which a robotic VM retrieves assignments and the automation that the VM runs after retrieving an assignment .

Swimlane

Identifies a group of shapes that are associated with the same organizational unit.

Split For Each

Performs the same operation for each item in a list.

Split Join

Sends the case to two or more other flows, both of which must finish before the current flow resumes.

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