Chapter 3 Business Process Model Basics

Opening an existing BPM

A Business Process Model has the file extension .BPM.

Choose process language

If PowerDesigner cannot find the process language attached to the Business Process Model you want to open, the Choose Process Language dialog box appears to let you select another process language to attach to the model. You can select the process language from the Process language dropdown listbox.

If the dropdown listbox is empty or does not contain the language you want, you can change the path to look for the appropriate language.

Steps To open an existing BPM:

  1. Select File→Open to display a standard open file dialog box.
  2. Select a file with the .BPM extension.
  3. Click Open.

    The model appears in the Browser and a diagram opens in the diagram window.

Note   Models from PowerDesigner previous versions
When you open a BPM that was created in a previous version of PowerDesigner (without any process language attached to it), the Analysis process language is automatically attached to the model in the current PowerDesigner version.

 

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