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Adding lanes to a BPD

A Business Process Definition (BPD) can include a lane for each system or group of users who participate in a process. A lane is the container for all the activities to be carried out by a specific group of users or by a system.


Procedure

  1. Drag a lane from the palette and drop it onto the diagram.

  2. In the Properties view, enter a name for the swimlane.

  3. Optional: You can also associate a default participant group with the swimlane.

    When a user task is added to this swimlane, the initial assignment for the task is the default lane participant group. If you do not specify a default lane participant group, the default participant group is All Users.

  4. Optional: You can also create a swimlane as a system lane, indicating that activities within it are to be completed by an IBM BPM system.

    To make a swimlane a system lane, select the swimlane in the diagram then select...

      Is System Lane

    ...in the Properties view. Although you can create a system task in non-system lanes, any new tasks in the system lane are created as system tasks by default. After a system task is created, if you move the task to a non-system lane, for example a lane associated with a participant group, it retains a system task type.

  5. To reorder swimlanes with respect to one another, you can right-click a lane and select Move Lane Down until it is positioned where you want it.

  6. Click Save in the main toolbar.
Create a business process definition (BPD)