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Moved these details into its own process — on a lower level of abstraction:To learn more about process hierarchies and how to model them using BPMN, see Making Your Stakeholders Lives Easier with Subsets.Events Events are signals that something happens – this includes the start and end of a process as well as any interaction with the process’ environment.Start events — What triggers my processes? The start event initiates a process and triggers the first activity or gateway via a sequence flow connection. For example, an online shop’s order-to-delivery process is triggered by the start event order received. Strictly speaking, a process without a start event is never executed.End events — What is my business goal? In addition to a start event a process should always have an end event, which typically marks the business goal of your process. It occurs after the participants have completed one of the possible activity sequences.In the example below, the business goal is to send order.End events can also mark a possible failure to reach the business goal. In our example we fail to achieve the business goal if the products ordered are not available.Intermediate events — How does my business process interact with its environment? Intermediate events trigger changes that affect process execution and the interaction of the process with its environment. Let’s take a look at a job application process: The job applicant writes the application, then sends it via email. In BPMN, this is depicted by a throwing intermediate message event, which indicates that a message is sent.Now, the company has to wait for the application: The arrival is depicted by a catching intermediate message event, which implies that a message is received. Once this event has been triggered, process execution can proceed.Connectors Sequence flows — How do activities, events and gateways relate to each other? Sequence flows connect activities with each other, as well as with events and gateways to precisely express the order of execution.Note that sequence flows can only connect elements that are within the same pool: For communication that crosses pool boundaries, use message flows instead.Message flows — How does my business process communicate over organizational boundaries? For communication that crosses the boundaries of your process’ pool, you need to use message flows. To account for additional complexity, communication with message flows needs to be defined more explicitly than intra-pool sequence flow communication. Therefore, BPMN uses events. Each incoming message is received by a catching event — the organization waits for the corresponding incoming message. Here’s an example:The delivery address for the package is provided from the order website. Later, you confirm the arrival of the package by sending a message back to the website. Interaction is

Lead at the same time and together.Please let us know you thoughts on Conductor. We would love to hear any and all feedback and suggestions for changes and updates to this new feature.MarkupWe have long had the request to allow users to ‘markup’ flows while presenting. With the growth of usage of Apple’s ‘Pencil‘, we wanted to allow our users the ability to draw and markup presentations while presenting. A couple of years ago, Apple released a new ‘framework’ (technology) that allowed us developers to easily add drawing. We started playing with this framework called PencilKit and are happy to finally release our first version of ‘Markup’ in FlowVella.How Do I Use Markup?Currently, you can only use Markup when you are the owner of the flow, like the Conductor feature.From the ‘My Flows’ screen select the flow you would like to present.On the next screen, you will see a number of icons on the bottom of the screen.Tap on the Markup icon.After tapping the button, a window will appear explaining the Markup feature.The Markup icon will have blue outline on informing the user that it’s on.Hit the ‘View’ button and launch the flow.You will see the ‘Markup’ button in the upper left corner of the flow. (We may allow the ability to move in the near future).When you tap on Markup button, controls appear on the bottom of the screen that allow you to change the tools and colors for markup.While actively in the Markup state, swiping and links to other screens won’t work.To advance to another screen, tap on the Markup button again, the controls will hide, and then you’re able to swipe or use links.Please let us know you thoughts on Markup. We would love to hear any and all feedback and suggestions for changes and updates to this new feature.Search/Filter FlowsFinally, what took us so long?! We moved to a new way to store your Flows and that has opened up the ability to do better search and filtering. These represent the first pass and we have only applied these to My Flows where we could expand to search your Saved and Team Flows.You can now filter your My Flows alphabetically by name, or inverse. You can filter by most recent by create date, or inverse and now you can search by ‘Title’ as well. Open to feedback as always on this as well. Dark/Light Modes and

Not limited to activities, but also occurs between pools! The message flows have these little circles on their tail — that’s where you plug them on the activities (or events) to signalize an outgoing message. Because the different lanes are part of your organizational context, you don’t have any kind of message flows occurring within them — use sequence flows instead.Associations What associations are involved in my business process? Associations connect text annotations, data stores and data objects, as well as the BPMN extension elements additional participants and IT systems to your process flow.Associations can be directional (have an arrowhead) to indicate read or write access.When associations don’t express read/write access, we use non-directional associations — without the arrowheads. For a practical example see external participants.Gateways Gateways allow to control as well as merge and split the process flow.Exclusive Gateways (XOR) — What decisions need to be made within my business process? (either/or) In business processes, you typically need to make choices — business decisions. The most common type of decision is choosing either/or. Exclusive Gateways limit the possible outcome of a decision to a single path, and circumstances choose which one to follow. Here is an example of what they look like:You can also use exclusive gateways to model decisions with more than just two possible outcomes:Parallel Gateways (AND) — How are parallel activities handled in my business process? In many cases, you want to split up the flow within your business process. For example the Finance and HR departments may examine a new employment contract at the same time. This reduces the total cycle time for a case. To express parallel flow in BPMN, you use a parallel gateway.A splitting parallel gateway multiplies the incoming sequence flow into several outgoing sequence flows that run simultaneously. A joining parallel gateway waits for all incoming sequences to terminate before combining them all in one outgoing flow.Inclusive Gateways (OR) — What decisions need to be made within my business process? (and/or) To allow parallel execution and decision-based exclusion of following sequence flows, you can use the inclusive gateway. For example: To evaluate a job application, a recruiter might check the applicant’s CV, their cover letter, references and LinkedIn profile. However, depending on what other information the recruiter has, checking all documents is not necessary to make a decision:Event-based Gateway — Do different events trigger different activities? Event-based gateways and exclusive gateways are functionally similar. You follow only one path out of the (many) options you have. But there are two important differences. Event-based gateway are triggered exclusively on intermediate events, and they wait for them to occur, before they trigger a decision — without the process participants’ direct influence. Event-based gateways