Annotations and Artefacts

Annotations and Artifacts are used to provide additional information about the Process.

There are two standardized Artifacts, but modelers or modeling tools are free to add as many Artifacts as necessary. There could be additional BPMN efforts to standardize a larger set of Artifacts for general use or for vertical markets. The current set of Artifacts includes:

  • Group

  • Text Annotation

Symbol Element Description

NewItem439

Annotation

Use the Annotation to attach Comments to Diagram Elements

NewItem440

Group

Used to group elements together

it system

IT-System

Use this Shape to attach an IT-System to Activities