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  1. Preface
  2. Welcome to Informatica Process Developer
  3. Using Guide Developer for the First Time
  4. Getting Started with Informatica Process Developer
  5. About Interfaces Service References and Local WSDL
  6. Planning Your BPEL Process
  7. Participants
  8. Implementing a BPMN Task or Event in BPEL
  9. Implementing a BPMN Gateway or Control Flow
  10. Using Variables
  11. Attachments
  12. Using Links
  13. Data Manipulation
  14. Compensation
  15. Correlation
  16. What is Correlation
  17. What is a Correlation Set
  18. Creating Message Properties and Property Aliases
  19. Adding a Correlation Set
  20. Deleting a Correlation Set
  21. Adding Correlations to an Activity
  22. Rules for Declaring and Using Correlation Sets
  23. Correlation Sets and Engine-Managed Correlation
  24. Event Handling
  25. Fault Handling
  26. Simulating and Debugging
  27. Deploying Your Processes
  28. BPEL Unit Testing
  29. Creating POJO and XQuery Custom Functions
  30. Custom Service Interactions
  31. Process Exception Management
  32. Creating Reports for Process Server and Central
  33. Business Event Processing
  34. Process Central Forms and Configuration
  35. Building a Process with a System Service
  36. Human Tasks
  37. BPEL Faults and Reports

Designer

Designer

Using Swimlanes

Using Swimlanes

You can provide a graphical representation of the participants in your process by adding a pool with swimlanes. The concept of a pool and swimlane is part of the BPMN specification. A pool represents a process and a swimlane represents a participant.
In Process Developer, you add swimlanes to the Process Editor canvas, typically to show each participant's activities. However, you can drag and drop activities into different lanes, using links to show the relationship between swimlane activities. There is only one pool for the process as a whole.
The following illustration shows an example of a process pool with four swimlanes, one for each process participant.
To add and use swimlanes
:
  1. Right-mouse click on the BPMN Editor canvas and select
    Add > Annotation > Swimlane
    .
  2. Notice that a pool and one swimlane is created. The pool name is the process name, and the swimlane is untitled.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • To add an additional swimlane to the left (or top) of the first one, right-mouse click on the left (or top) side of the process, and select
      Add > Annotation > Swimlane
      .
    • To add a swimlane to the right (or bottom) of the first one, right-mouse click to the right (or bottom) of the first one and select
      Add > Annotation > Swimlane
      .
  4. To name a swimlane, select the swimlane titlebar and display Properties view. In the Text field, replace
    Untitled
    with your text.
If you want to change swimlane colors, you must first turn off zebra stripping.
Tips on working with swimlanes:
  • By default, swimlanes are displayed in bands of white and gray, called zebra striping. To disable zebra striping and enable individual colors for each swimlane, select the title bar of the pool and open the Properties view. Set properties as desired:
  • To delete a swimlane, right-mouse click on the swimlane and select
    Delete
    . Delete all swimlanes to delete the pool.
  • Swimlanes have only visual properties: You must manually arrange all activities within swimlanes.
  • You can add a swimlane from the Annotation drawer of the palette
  • Swimlanes can be used on the main canvas, not on the drill-down view of a collapsed container, nor on the fault or event handler tabs
Resizing Swimlanes
To make a swimlane grow or shrink, to accommodate the activities you add or delete, move a swimlane border either left or right in horizontal orientation (up or down in vertical orientation). By default, a resizing restriction is set on swimlanes to disallow a swimlane from being too small to accommodate an activity. The
Restrict Swimlane Resizin
g property in the Pool is set to
Yes
. For flexibility in resizing a swimlane, set this property to
No
.

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