BPMN - Business Process Model and NotationIf you are unfamiliar with BPMN 2.0, you might want to check out the
BPMN Tutorial first.
Coverage
The elements marked in orange are supported.Symbols
Participants
Events
In BPMN there are start events, intermediate events and end events. These three event types can be catching events or throwing events. Intermediate events can be used as boundary events on tasks, in which case they can be interrupting or non-interrupting. This gives you a lot of flexibility to use events in your processes.Understanding BPMN EventsTo help understand the principle behavior of events in BPMN, we recommend to check the
Events: Basic Concepts
chapter of the BPMN Modeling Reference.
| Type | Start | Intermediate | End | |||||
| Normal | Event Subprocess | Event Subprocess non-interrupt | catch | boundary | boundary non-interrupt | throw | ||
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