Assigning Organizational Units and Resources
Assign lanes, activities or subprocesses of a BPMN process or participants of a collaboration to organizational units or other resources using drag-and-drop or in the Properties tool window. Assignment expresses that the organizational unit is responsible or a resource is necessary.
Modeling Responsiblities and Uses
You can define organizational structures in the org chart; these can then be linked with resources in resource diagrams.
You can link lanes (swimlanes), activities, subprocesses or participants with organizational units and resources in BPMN processes to show the states of the organizational units modeled for process steps or the use of resources in process steps.
You can assign the following element types:
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Organizational unit
Group
Executive position
Administrative position
Managerial position
Assistant position
Role
Person
Employee
IT element
Application system
Application
Business resourceYou can assign existing organizational units and other resources or create these during assignment. Newly-created resources are assigned to an owner and given an initial default name.
As with executed organizational units and other resources, it is also possible to assign actors and components as resources in a BPMN process, e.g. from a use case diagram.
Assignment is possible from resources to:
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Lane (Resource property) -
Activity (task or call activity, Resource Assignment property) -
Subprocess (Resource Assignment property) -
Participant (Partner Entity property)
Assignment of a resource has the following types:
- Not specified (default value)
- Those responsible for execution (Responsible)
- Accountable for costs (Accountable)
- Consultant responsibility (Consulted)
- Right to information (Informed)
The specific typing is based on RACI technology for analyzing and displaying responsibilities and is primarily based on roles and organizational units. You can use it to describe which roles or organizational units are responsible for or involved with which activities.
Set the typing in the Properties tool window.
Assigning to a Resource
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