Working with business process map

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    • Use the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization to create, update, and manage business process diagrams that represent the current and future state of your business workflows.

    Working with business process diagrams in Enterprise Modeling and Visualization. A Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) diagram is a visual representation of a structured sequence of tasks aimed at achieving specific outcomes. Use it to establish a shared, visual understanding of processes: who is involved, what actions are taken, and where decisions are made.

    The Shapes palette provides a full BPMN 2.0 shape library organized into four sub-categories:

    • General: Structural shapes including pools, lanes, and data artifacts.
    • Event: Shapes covering start, intermediate, end, and boundary events with all standard trigger types.
    • Activity: Task shapes (including user task, service task, manual task, script task, business rule task, send task, and receive task), call activities, sub-processes, and marker shapes.
    • Gateway: Gateway shapes for controlling process flow, including exclusive, inclusive, parallel, event-based, and complex gateways.

    When you drag a shape from the Shapes palette to the canvas, the shape icon you drag matches the shape's appearance on the canvas. Hovering over a shape in the palette shows a preview before you place it.

    You can perform the following actions when working with a business process map:

    • Create business process map and associate it with a new or existing business process record.
    • Add BPMN shapes to the canvas and connect them with relationship lines. Change the line type using the list that appears directly on the connector.
    • Replace a shape on the canvas with a different shape while retaining the original shape's label and connections.
    • Update the properties of a shape by opening the side panel for the associated record.
    • Modify diagram-level details such as the name and description of the business process.
    • Save versions, share, duplicate, and submit diagrams for approval.
    • Commit approved diagrams to synchronize changes to the database.
    Note:

    To keep connector ports visible on shapes at all times without hovering, enable the Show all buttons without the need to hover preference in Preferences > Accessibility. For more information, see Show shape controls without hovering.