Diagramming

Everything about authoring and reading diagrams. New to it? Start with the first-diagram tutorial.

Author

• Create and edit a diagram — the editor end to end: drawing, pools and lanes, links, notes, pages, and printing.
• Shape numbering and style — numbering, the Styles panel, and Format Painter.
• Shape libraries — build and manage custom shape collections.
• Diagram templates — offer your own diagrams as starting points.
• Diagram-defined custom properties — data fields that live inside one diagram.

Connect to the model

• Describes relationships — how shapes stand for enterprise objects, proposals, and acceptance.
• RACI from diagram lanes — automatic Responsible assignments from describing lanes.
• Assign a process owner
• Display Fields — show RACI, properties, and more on shapes.
• Described object changes in diagrams — version snapshots vs live data.

Read and review

• View a diagram — navigator, view options, the changes toggle, Approved Only mode.
• Use paths — highlight and walk routes through the flow.
• Comment on a diagram
• Compare diagram versions

Analyze

• Process metrics — roll custom-property values up the diagram.
• Mining variant overlay — overlay Process MiningProcess Mining A discipline that uses event data recorded by enterprise systems to discover, monitor, and improve real business processes — revealing how work actually flows rather than how it was designed. variantsVariant A unique trace pattern in an event log. Variant analysis ranks how often each path is taken and is the fastest way to spot process deviation. on a design diagram.

Diagram types and imports

• BPMN diagrams and the BPMN reference
• ArchiMate diagrams
• Value stream mapping — VSM diagrams, the timeline, and lean types.
• Import diagrams — Visio, BPMNBPMN An ISO/OMG standard graphical notation for modeling business processes. Process360 Live uses BPMN 2.0 for design and simulation artifacts. XML, IGXW, and desktop IGX (supported Visio shapes).
• Translate diagram content