Activity

An Activity component defines an activity within a Business Process according to BPMN 2.0. The activity type and its execution behavior are defined by corresponding properties or marked with markers. Depending on the use case , an Activity component can be used to link Technical Processes or other Business Processes as subprocesses.

Ad hoc

Ad-hoc activities are marked as ad-hoc by the icon.

Ad-hoc activity: Activity that can be executed at any time (free-flow mode only)

Compensation

Compensating activities are marked by the icon.

Compensating activity: Unwinding of steps that have already been successfully completed

Activity type

Identification of the activity type

Available activity types:

• None: General activity, without additional marking (default)

• Send: Send

• Receive: Receive

• Manual: Manual activity

• Service: Service(process)

• Script: Script

Execution type

Identification of the execution behavior

Available execution behavior markers:

• Single: Simple execution (default)

• Loop: Loop

• Parallel Multi-Instance: Parallel multi-execution

• Sequential Multi-Instance: Sequential multi-execution

Document

Path to the linked process in the X4 repository (set by the X4 Designer). If a process component icon from the palette is inserted on the drawing surface by means of drag&drop, it is merely an empty process component without reference to a file in the repository.

Label

Annotation of the icon in the process diagram