Expanding and Collapsing Call Activities, Pools and Subprocesses

Call activities can be collapsed in process views or definitions to hide contents; the same applies for pools and subprocesses in referencing views.

Prerequisites

The collaboration which contains the pool and/or process needs to be shown as the referencing view.

Context

Attention:

Expanding and collapsing diagram elements can irreversibly affect the diagram's layout.

Elements appear in their current expanded or collapsed state in the model's documentation.

To make things simpler, BPMN allows a collaboration's participants/pools, call activities and subprocesses to be shown as collapsed within a process. Innovator only allows this for pools and subprocesses in referencing views due to conceptual reasons.

Call activities in processes
Subprocesses in process views
Collaboration participants or pools in process views

Appropriate commands are used in the BPMN diagram to make sure diagram elements are not unintentionally moved when expanding or reducing call activities and pools (collaboration participants).

Note:

The subprocess' state at the time it was last converted into a call activity or at the time it was last fully shown is expressed when it is extended.The current subprocess can be shown using the Process View>Show Complete context menu item.

Show contents preview (click)
The subprocess of the call activity or pool is shown in a separate window with the zoom function.
Embed contents (Shift+click)
The subprocess of the call activity or pool is shown as minimized within the existing, unchanged diagram element.
Expand contents (Ctrl+click)
The subprocess of the call activity or pool is shown as expanded. Neighboring diagram elements may be irreversibly moved.

How to proceed

To reduce a pool or subprocess, click on the expanding icon.

The pool or subprocess is collapsed.The icon is replaced by the expanding icon.
To expand a pool or subprocess:

Click on the icon to show the contents preview.

The subprocess of the call activity or pool is shown in a separate window with the zoom function.The icon is replaced by the collapsing icon.
To show the contents as embedded, keep the [Shift] button pressed and click on the icon.

The subprocess of the call activity or pool is shown as minimized within the existing, unchanged diagram element.The icon is replaced by the collapsing icon.
To show the contents as expanded, keep the [Ctrl] button pressed and click on the icon.

The subprocess of the call activity or pool is shown as expanded. Neighboring diagram elements may be irreversibly moved.The icon is replaced by the collapsing icon.