How to handle Call activities

Activities of the Call type

The concept of the activity of the Call activity type is an approach for reusable processes and tasks. An activity of the Call Activity type serves as a wrapper for a global task or process. This wrapper can remove the properties and attributes of the global task.

In ARIS, an activity of the Call activity type is a separate symbol that can be placed directly. An object definition or model that represents the global task or process can be assigned to this activity.

Call activities for a global task

In ARIS, the reference of an activity of the Call activity type is mapped to its global task via a connection between the object definition of the activity of the Call activity type and the object definition of the global task. In addition, the associated target object cannot have any object occurrences.

Both the connection and associated target object are protected when a database is reorganized.

Call activities for a global process

In ARIS, the referenced process is assigned as a model of the BPMN collaboration diagram (BPMN 2.0) type to the activity of the Call activity type.

What happens when you expand and collapse?

When you collapse an object of the Call activity type a model of the BPMN collaboration diagram (BPMN 2.0) type is created.

If you want to create an assignment to a model of the BPMN process diagram (BPMN 2.0) type, you must create an assignment manually. Only models of the BPMN collaboration diagram (BPMN 2.0) type are offered in the dialog for selecting a global reference.

If only one assigned model exists, the objects of the assigned model are displayed in the object of the Call activity type when an object of the Call activity type is expanded.

If an assigned model of the BPMN collaboration diagram (BPMN 2.0) type exists, as well as an assigned model of the BPMN process diagram (BPMN 2.0) type, the objects of the assigned model of the BPMN collaboration diagram (BPMN 2.0) type are displayed when an object of the Call activity type is expanded.