X-BPMN Notations

TASK TYPES

Send Task

Receive Task

User Task

Manual Task

Manual Service Task

A Manual Service is when the service is performed by a human.

Automated Service Task

An Automated Service can be either an application service, data service, platform service, infrastructure service or a web service.

Automated Task

An Automated Task is an activity that is automated through either a business process execution engine or any application (e.g. using application features and/or functions to enable the application task).

Business Rule Task

Reporting Task

Reporting is the exposure, description and portrayment of specific tasks, services and the associated information and data.The information and data objects/source can bind with the reporting activity the process components to the specific cockpits,dashboards or scorecards.

Mapping Task

Mapping activities includes identifying, defining and plotting the involved business, information and data objects within theactivities. This allows to identify possible grouping of common business, information and data objects and their associatedrules (e.g. rulesets), enabling the change of complex objects and views into more simple views.

Decision Table

A Decision Table defines decisions based on a number of given conditions and actions. Decision tables allow to work from the same information, and are therefore a precise way to model complicated logics and associations.

Notification Task

An instance of a message delivered to one or more recipients. A Notification activity sends a message to a user, both therecipients and the content that needs to be specified. Notification activities furthermore allow flow rulesets to be applied inorder to notify users of events that occur during the workflow.

Script Task

Rule

A Rule is a statement describing a business policy or decision procedure. Some programming languages run business rules together in very complex algorithms. In business process analysis, each rule is usually stated independently, in the general format of: If A and B, Then C.

Rule Script

A Rule Script allows generating a rule in a scripting environment. This is done through the connection of other activities andthe rules that govern these relations, and the actions between them. Rule scripts can furthermore be used with script types,and thereby automated test rules (e.g. configurable, programmed, query and event-based network alerts). The link betweenrule scripts and the mentioned script type could be used as template–based query that can be run against backend tables ordatabase views.

Ruleset

A Ruleset is a collection (and thereby a grouping) of rules. They are either grouped based on common related rules, decisions tables or the need to govern a specific set or behavior of tasks. Grouping such rulesets allows for sharing of rules and execution by a rules engine.

Rule Flow

Rule Flows are comprised of linked tasks that contain the instructions for which rules to execute and in what order. The rulesare organized into tasks, and the rule flow specifies how tasks are chained together; how, when, and under what conditionsthey are executed. When you are dealing with many large rulesets, managing the order in which rules are evaluated canbecome complex. Rule flows allows you to specify the order in which rulesets are to be evaluated. It does so by providing youwith a flow chart. Use this chart to define which rule sets should be evaluated in sequence, and which ones in parallel, and tospecify conditions under which rule sets should be evaluated. The reuse of rules components and their natural relations likeactivity association are an important aspect of rule modelling principles. This allows for rule modelling consistency betweenthe different rule artifacts from the rule flows, rule scripts, rulesets, flow rulesets, rules and decision tables.

Flow Ruleset

A Flow Ruleset is a collection (and thereby grouping) of rules that apply to a flow. These flow rulesets are either grouped based on common related rules in the flow, decisions tables, or the need to govern a specific set or behavior of tasks in the flow. Grouping such flow rulesets allows for sharing of rules and execution, by a rule engine throughout the entire flow. As well as the relation to the reuse of such rulsets in other flows, starting from the main flow where the ruleset are applied.

MARKERS

Sub-process Marker

Loop Marker

Parallel MI Marker

Sequential MI Marker

Ad Hoc Marker

Compensation

Annotation Marker

FLOWS

Sequence Flow

Conditional Flow

Default Flow

Message Flow

Association Flow

Data Association Flow

OBJECTS

Business Object

A Business Object is the term used to express real-world objects like people, employee, products or a sales order, customer and revenue. Business Objects used for example in business, process and service mapping and furthermore used in application implementations where they are used as a patented semantic layer that shields users from the complexities of information table names and data relationships.

Business Store

Is a place where the real-world objects are stored.

Business Input

Is an external input for the real-world objects. A kind of input parameter.

Business Output

Is the real-world result of the entire process and or service flow. A kind of output parameter.

Collection of Business Objects

Represents a collection of real-world objects, e.g. a employee roles.

Information Objects

An Information Object is used to specify information about real-world objects (like people, employees, products or a salesorder, etc.), and is therefore a digital representation of an existing entity within an Information System (e.g. Oracle ERP or SAPERP). It encompasses both the business information (in the form of functions and methods) and the application information(in the form of attributes) of the entity. Information Objects can be found and therefore modeled in business functions,business services and business processes.

Information Input

Is an external information input for the entire process. A kind of input parameter.

Information Output

Is the information output/result of the entire process. A kind of output parameter.

Information Store

Is a place where the information can be read or written (e.g. knowledge management or a filingcabinet). It persists beyond the lifetime of the process instance.

Collection of Information Objects

Represents a collection of information (e.g. a list of order items).

Data Object

A Data Object is a logical cluster of all tables in the data set that have one or more columns containing data related to the same business entity. Data objects are not maps, but instead represent an object view of related Information Objects and they represent Business Objects.

Data Input

Is an external data input for the entire process. A kind of input parameter.

Data Output

Is the data result of the entire process. A kind of output parameter.

Data Store

Is a place where the process can read or write data (e.g. a database or a filing cabinet). It persists beyond the lifetime of the process instance.

Collection of Data Objects

Represents a collection of data tables/columns containing data related to the same data entity (e.g. a list of order items).

EVENTS

Send Timer

Escalation (start)

Escalation (end)

Link (start)

Link (end)

Error (start)

Error (end)

Cancel (start)

Cancel (end)

Conditional

Compensation (start)

Compensation (end)

Signal (start)

Signal (end)

Multiple (start)

Multiple (end)

Parallel Multiple

Terminate

GATEWAYS

Gateway

Event-based Gateway

Inclusive Gateway

Exclusive Gateway

Exclusive Event-based Gateway

Parallel Gateway

Parallel Event-based Gateway

Complex Gateway

CONVERSATIONS

A Conversation

defines a set of logically related message exchanges. When market with a (+) symbol it indicates a Sub-Conversation, a compound conversation element.

A Call Conversation

is a wrapper for a globally defined Conversation of Sub-Conversation. A call to a Sub-Conversation is market with a (+) symbol.

A Conversation Link

connects Conversations And Participants.