Organization Units (OOM )

An organization unit can represent a company, a system, a service, an organization, a user or a role, which is responsible for an activity. In UML, an organization unit is called a swimlane, while in the OOM, "swimlane" refers to the symbol of the organization unit.

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To enable the display of organization unit swimlanes, select Tools > Display Preferences , and select the Organization unit swimlane checkbox on the General page, or right-click in the diagram background and select Enable Swimlane Mode.

An organization unit can be created in an activity diagram and can contain any of the other activity diagram objects:

Creating an Organization Unit
Create an organization unit to show the participant responsible for the execution of activities .
Organization Unit Properties
You can modify an object's properties from its property sheet. To open an organization unit property sheet, double-click its swimlane symbol header or its Browser entry in the Organization Units folder.
Attaching Activities to Organization Units
Attach activities to organization units to graphically assign responsibility for them. When activities are attached to an organization unit displayed in a swimlane, the organization unit name is displayed in the Organization Unit list of their property sheets.
Displaying a Committee Activity
A committee activity is a decomposed activity whose sub-activities are managed by several organization units.
Managing Swimlanes and Pools
Each group of one or more swimlanes forms a pool. You can create multiple pools in a diagram, and each pool is generally used to represent a separate organization.

Parent topic: Building Dynamic Diagrams