Model 8 - Link Event instead of Sequence Flows
How-to
Sometimes more complex models require a split in the flow to gain a certain level of clearness. Modeling from left to right might result in a long model. By using the Link Event you can "push" the rest of the model to the next line. This saves the long edge that would be displayed across the whole model.
Approach
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Create a sending Link Event where you want the sequence flow to be stopped
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Create a receiving Link Event where you want the sequence flow to be continued
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You must give both events the same name, so that they are linked to each other
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(see Linking Events to each other for more information)
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Report
See below for the run configuration, which we set up to receive the report statistics from below.
Please refer to the section Experiment Results for more information on the report specific data.
Run configuration
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Stochastic Seed: 12345
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Simulation start date: 1/1/2014 12:00:00 a.m.
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Simulation stop time: 240
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Simulation stop time unit: Hours
Report statistics
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This report shows that link events do not (and should not) have any impact on the process' lead time
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Please replace both link events with a simple edge between the to activities and simulate the model with the same run configuration
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The new report will be the same as this one
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The only difference will that there will not be any statistics on the link events
