Chapter 8 Building an Executable BPM: Managing Data and Choreography
A start is a starting point of the whole process represented in the business process diagram.
The global definition of the start in an executable BPM is the same as in other BPM views (Analysis and Collaborative). However some behaviors are modified, in order to fully support the executable BPM.
For more information about the global definition of the end, see section Defining ends in chapter Building an Analysis Business Process Model.
Starts are not allowed in a top-level diagram, and only one start is allowed in the composite process.
For this reason, the Start tool is grayed out in the Palette if a start symbol already exists in the current diagram. Pasting a start is also forbidden if a start already exists in the sub-process diagram.
Change target language
If you change the target language of an Analysis or Collaborative model, for it to become an Executable model, all start objects that appear under composite processes and all start objects that appear simultaneously in the same top-level diagram are merged to become one.
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