Process Structure
Applies to: viflow (subscription | 9 ) | Article: 1560433 | Updated on 26.04.2024
The Process Structure window is the most important window for modeling with viflow and – together with the Information and Areas windows – is part of the standard viflow layout (View – Layout – Standard menu).
Process View and Navigation in the "Process Structure" Window
Here the individual processes and branches are listed hierarchically one below the other (see image above). If a process (or branch) has sub-processes, this is indicated by a [] marked. If you click on a [], the tree is expanded and the subordinate processes become visible. By clicking on [] the tree can be collapsed again.
The individual symbols
Process |
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Process with graphics |
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Decision |
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Decision with graphic |
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Expand tree |
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Collapse tree |
Alternate view in the "Processes" window
In the Processes window (folder view), the individual processes are listed according to process types - in contrast to the hierarchical sorting in the Process Structure window (see above). You can see the processes assigned to a process type when you expand the process types displayed as folders.
This window is opened via the menu ››› View – Window – Processes.
The context menu in the "Process Structure" window
The context menu allows quick access to the most important functions. In the process window, right-click [] on a process to open the context menu.
The bold entry – Open here – corresponds to the double-click functionality []. For processes that do not have any sub-processes (and therefore no graphics), double-click in the process window to open the properties window.
You can also call up some of these functions elsewhere in the program or as a key combination:
context menu |
function |
alternate function |
Open |
Open a process graphic |
Double-click a process with a graphic icon in the process window |
Select in... |
Process is marked in the opened process graphic |
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New | Creating a new process |
››› Start – New |
Delete | Delete a process from the process window |
[Select+DEL] in graphic |
Rename |
Renaming a process |
Name field in the properties window |
Cut |
Copy and remove a process |
[CTRL+X] |
Copy |
Copy a process |
[CTRL+C] |
Paste |
Not active in the context menu of the process window, only when right-clicking on process shape in graphic: Inserts the contents of the clipboard into the process |
[CTRL+V] |
Reports |
Open the Description, Structure, Turtle Model, Metrics, Participants, History reports |
››› Reports |
Properties | Open the properties of the process in the properties window |
››› Start – viflow object |