Chapter 4 Building an Analysis Business Process Model

Starts (Analysis BPM)

A start is a starting point of the whole process represented in the business process diagram. It represents an external entry point between a process and the outside. Its symbol is a solid circle as shown below:

You can create several starts within a package or a model since you can use several business process diagrams in the same model or package. You can also create graphical synonyms of a start.

However, you cannot create shortcuts for a start.

Start creation in a collaborative or executable BPM
You cannot create a start in a top-level diagram for a collaborative or executable BPM. For these types of models, you can only create one start under a decomposed process.