Chain processes

In BPMN diagrams, you can chain processes together using the start and end events. For this purpose, the Trigger attribute is available in start events, the Triggered processes attribute is available in end events, and both the Trigger and Triggered processes attributes are available in intermediate events. In the Trigger attribute, you can reference end events of processes that trigger the event. In the Triggered processes attribute, you can reference start events of processes that are triggered by the event. In this way, you can determine predecessor and successor processes and chain your processes together.

Instruction:

1. Open the BPMN diagram in the WebModeller

2. Select the start, intermediate or end event

3. In the properties, reference the predecessor process in the Trigger property or the successor process in the Triggered processes property:

   

Result:

To see in the diagram which predecessor and successor processes the process has, you can highlight the Triggered events details in the BPMN diagram. This will display an icon at the event that you can use to open the predecessor or successor process.

To display detailed information of the predecessor process in the start event label, you can activate the Detailed start event label property in the diagram profile.

The Portal provides the reports Processes without predecessors and Processes without successors by default. There, all processes are evaluated and displayed that are not linked to a predecessor or successor process via their events.