Chapter 4 Building Business Process Diagrams

Decomposing an atomic process

You can decompose an atomic process in a business process diagram in any of the following ways:

• Press CTRL and double-click the process symbol (this will open the sub- process directly).
• Right-click the process and select Decompose Process in the contextual menu.
• Open the property sheet of the process and, on the General tab, select the Decomposed Process radio button.

For more information about process decomposition in a PHD, see the "Building Process Hierarchy Diagrams" chapter

When you create a decomposed process, a sub-process diagram is automatically created below its entry in the browser:

The decomposed process is empty at first, except when you create it from a selection of symbols. Any objects that you create in the sub-process diagram are listed in the Browser under the decomposed process.

In a BPD, decomposed processes must always have at least one start and one end.

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