Chapter 4 Building an Analysis Business Process Model
A role association is a relationship that designs an interaction between an organization unit and a process.
The role association link is represented as a simple line with a direction (arrow):
You can create a role association between:
To express this kind of relationship, you should use the icon representation of the organization unit. To do so, you must deselect the Organization Unit Swimlane check box in the Display Preferences dialog box or right-click the diagram background and select the Disable Swimlane Mode command. If you switch to the Swimlane mode again, you delete all the role associations you have defined and the Role Association tool is unavailable in the Palette.
Role associations in a BPM are very close to associations in the UML use case diagram in the OOM.
The orientation of the role association is defined by the way it is created graphically.
A role association between an organization unit and a process is an Initiating role . A role association between a process and an organization unit is a Responding role .
The orientation of the role association may not be displayed. If you want to display it, you should modify the role association display preferences.
For more information about how to modify the role association display preferences, see section "Role association display preferences" in the "Customizing the BPM environment" chapter.
Example:
Dragging a role association to a different object
You change the objects at either end of a role association by clicking the role association to select it, and dragging one of the attach points to a different object.
A role association can link a shortcut to a source object or to a destination object.
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