Events
BPMN definition
An "Event" occurs in Collaboration and in Choreography diagrams. Events affect the process flow. There are three types of events: Start, Intermediate, and End events.
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"catching": by receiving a trigger, the event is considered to have occurred
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"throwing": activated by the process, the event will send a trigger
Event types
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Type Dimension |
Event indicates start of process |
wait for |
trigger |
Event indicates end of process |
General events |
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Timer event |
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Message event |
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Signal event |
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Compensation event |
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Error event |
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Escalation event |
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Conditional event |
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Multiple event |
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Parallel Multiple event |
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Cancel event |
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Link event |
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Terminate event |
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Interrupting and non-interrupting events
Subprocesses and activities may have an event attached to their boundary. In this case the event may act interrupting as well as non-interrupting. The boundary of non-interrupting events are dashed. The markers are similar.
| Not all types of events can be attached. |
The options "interrupting" and "non-interrupting" are available in the The Properties Area. For details, refer to the bottom of this page.
Event Properties
Events available in the collaboration and choreography toolbox (refer to: Collaboration diagram and Choreography diagram):
The following Properties may be specified:
- Element Type
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You may change the Event type
- Id
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Id number, which is allocated by the system
- Name
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The name of the element. This name is displayed as text underneath the element
- Note
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A short information about the element
- Interrupting
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Determines, if "interrupting" takes effect