BPMN export overview
The Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for specifying processes. This design can be serialized into an xml file that supports the BPMN objects and diagrams. Each process is serialized into a bpmn file.
The MEGA BPMN export project aims at exporting workflow definitions as BPMN files so that workflows modeled in MEGA can be used by other BPMN modeling tools or workflow engines.
Prerequisites
The BPMN export feature is available with MEGA Process BPMN and MEGA System BluePrint, and supports BPMN version 2.0.
Activate/Deactivate BPMN export
The BPMN export feature can be activated or deactivated for a user, a profile, an environment, or a site. This can be done using the corresponding option:
Scope of BPMN export
The purpose of BPMN export is to export a MEGA Process into a BPMN file.
The tool handles translation of the following processes:
• System Processes
• Organizational Processes
• Business Processes
• Functional Processes
The list of supported mappings is detailed below. See Object correspondences.
Exporting BPMN Files
To export a BPMN file from MEGA:
1. In MEGA, select File > Export > BPMN 2.0 (*.bpmn).
The export dialog box appears.
2. Select the type of object you want to export, for example System Process, and click Next.
3. Specify the path of the files to be created.
Three options are available:
• Consider Sub Processes as Called Processes: In BPMN a sub process is embedded into the parent process, so when exporting the parent process the sub processes will be exported in the same file as embedded processes. This option allows to consider these sub processes as call process tasks.
• Check BPMN Rules before export: this option checks whether processes you want to export conform to BPMN modeling rules. If not, a message asks if you want to continue with the export. Click Yes to continue or No to stop the export.
• Zip export files into a single zip file: this option enables to add all exported bpmn files into a single archive file (zip file). Some BPMN modeling tools accept only zip files as import BPMN file.
4. Select one or several processes to be exported.
5. Click Next.
A window shows progression and report of the export.
6. Click Finish.