Intermediate Events

Events generally do not possess any simulation properties. All of them use the inherent information based on the BPMN 2.0 specification.

However there are two exceptions:

Firstly timer intermediate event: It basically does the same job as the general / timer start event. The only difference is that it can be placed "in" the flow or it can be attached to an activity.
Secondly the message receiving intermediate event: In some occasions you will simply want to create a model, which uses the conceptual idea of a message receiving event, but which does not necessarily have a respective sender event in another pool. Therefore we offer you the possibility to specify an optional duration to represent the time consumption until the message receipt usually occurs.

Note that if you do not specify one of the below properties, the simulation will execute the event immediately when reaching the activity.

Simulation Properties of the Timer Intermediate Event

Optional Simulation Properties

Inter-arrival time

Specify a distribution (for a time span), a recurrent time instant or a script to represent this event's trigger delay.

Simulation Properties of the Message receiving Intermediate Event

Optional Simulation Properties
Stochastic Event Trigger	Check this box, if you want to specify a distribution for a time span which will then represent the delay of the message receipt.
Must-Have Simulation Properties
Duration until Message Receipt	This property will become obligatory after checking the "Stochastic Event Trigger" check-box. Here you can specify a distribution, which will then represent the duration until the message will be received.