Element from Text Tool Window

The Element from Textplug-in has its own tool window with the same name. You can use it to highlight areas of text in the running text and mark these as BPMN element types so they can be used in a process.

Purpose

You can use the Element from Text tool window to select text passages in running text and mark them as BPMN element types to then use them in a process. This makes it relatively easy to create simple process elements from text.

The interface has the following extension for the plug-in:

  • An extra tool window with a corresponding context menu exists for selecting text passages and assigning the text as a name for a BPMN model element in the BPMN diagram.

Constraints

  • If you are not allowed to drag and drop an element into the BPMN diagram, this may be because the diagram is not locked or the element type is not permissible where you are trying to drop it.
  • If the menu commands for assigning an element type are deactivated in the context menu, this means you do not have suitable rights.

Assigning Text as Element Name

Context

You select text passages in running text and flag them as BPMN element types in order to use them in a process.

How to proceed

  1. Use the clipboard to copy text to the Element from Text tool window.

  2. Select the text you want to use as the name for the new element.

  3. Use the context menu to set which element type the element should have.

    The corresponding icon is shown in front of the text. The text and its icon are merged so that they move together when selected with the mouse and the text cannot be changed.

  4. Drag the text and its icon and drop it in the diagram you want.

    A corresponding element is created with the name.

  5. If you add the wrong selected text to the element type by mistake then you can change this using the context menu.