Editing a Model

 To open the editor, either double click on the name of a model, or select a model and click the "Edit model" button in the toolbar. You can also open a model in a new window, allowing you to work on more than one at a time.

The editor includes a toolbar at the top that provides various controls, like copy/paste and undo/redo, and a left hand "palette" of the available BPMN elements and extensions.

New elements should be drag-dropped from this left-hand palette onto the canvas, the main work area, to construct the model.

Model Properties

When no workflow elements are selected, the properties section beneath the work area displays the properties of the model itself.

 

Property	Description
Process Identifier	The unique identifier of the process definition
Name	The name of the process definition, displayed within the modeller and on templates like User Requests and Self Service
Target Namespace	The namespace of the process definition determines it's position/grouping in the modeller navigation
Description	The description of the process definition, displayed in products like the Self Service template. This value can include workflow variables
Candidates	The users who are eligible to start instances of this process. This could be the public/anonymous user. This lists excludes any users that have random GUID-type usernames generated by the site authentication service when users log into your site using an external provider - as there's no way of knowing who these users are from this menu there is little point in showing them. In general candidates should be assigned by group

Process Definition Names, Keys and IDs

When you create a model you give it a name. This user-friendly name is displayed in the modeller and saved as the processDefinitionName.

"processDefinitionName": "Our First Process"

The name, with spaces removed, becomes the processDefinitionKey.

"_processDefinitionKey": "ourfirstprocess"

When you deploy your model, or redeploy your model so you get a new version, the key is combined with the version number and a unique ID, giving you the processDefinitionId.

"processDefinitionId": "ourfirstprocess:2:27618"