Chapter 5 Building an Analysis Business Process Model

Resource flow property sheet General tab

The General tab contains the following properties:

Property Description
Name The name of the item which should be clear and meaningful, and should convey the item's purpose to non-technical users
Code The technical name of the item used for generating code or scripts, which may be abbreviated, and should not generally include spaces
Comment Descriptive comment for the object
Process One extremity of the resource flow (process). You can click the Properties tool beside this box to display the process property sheet
Resource Other extremity of the resource flow (resource). You can click the Properties tool beside this box to display the resource property sheet
Stereotype Extends the semantics of an object derived from existing objects but specific to your needs. You can type stereotypes directly in the Stereotype box of the object property sheet or select a value from the list if you have previously defined stereotypes in an embedded or imported extended model definition (.XEM) or in the process language
Message format Abstract definition of data exchanged between a resource and a process. You can choose among one of the following values:

  • None. it indicates that you do not want any message format for your flow as the event is of minor importance
  • Undefined. Default value. When selected, it indicates that message formats will be defined later


You can click the Create tool beside the Message Format list to create a message format for your flow
Access mode Way to access data. Defines the resource flow direction. You can choose one of the following access modes to access data in a resource

  • Resource to process. Access Mode is Read
  • Process to resource. Access Mode is Create, Update, Delete

 

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