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Creating a BPM Process (.bpm)

In BPM Projects, you work with so-called business processes (BPM Processes *.bpm) to visualize and model your company’s processes. In these BPM files, you can use a graphical editor to map the events, activities, and paths of your processes.

For this example BPM Project, you model the "Import and approve invoices" process. In the first step, you have to create a BPM process.

How to create a BPM process

Prerequisite:

You have created a BPM Project in the Projects view. For more information, see Creating New Projects .

  1. Double-click the created BPM Project in the Projects view.

  2. Right-click the Processes folder.

  3. Select New > Business Process.
    The Process Creation Wizard dialog box opens.

  4. In the File name text field, enter the name ImportInvoicesfor your process.

  5. Click Finish.
    ✅ The process is created in the Processes folder.

  6. Double-click the process to open it in the editor.
    The process already automatically contains a start and an end point.

  7. First, delete all elements except the image-20241009-120107.png Start element to implement the example described here.

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