Software AG Products 10.11 | Designing and Implementing Business Process Models | ARIS Method manual | Modeling BPMN 2.0 | Process | Lanes
 
Lanes
A lane is a subdivision of a process or a pool. Lanes have no semantics in BPMN. BPMN 2.0 uses lanes as a way to categorizes Flow Elements. Most often lanes represent organizational elements, but in principle any categorization may be used for lanes. Lanes may contain nested sub-lanes. A lane set specifies the categorization represented by the lanes.
See: Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), version 2.0.
Like a pool a lane is drawn as a rectangular box, its label is not boxed off.
Nested lanes
Mapping the attributes and model associations to ARIS
Class
BPMN attribute name
Implementation in ARIS
LaneSet
inherits from BaseElement
Object type: Lane (OT_BPMN_LANE) Symbol: Lane (ST_BPMN_LANE_1)
 
process: Process
The BPMN process model that contains the lane(s).
 
lanes: Lane [0..*]
Object type: Lane (OT_BPMN_LANE) Symbol: Lane (ST_BPMN_LANE_1) The source objects in the connection type: Lane belongs to (CT_BELONGS_TO_1) lane
 
parentLane: Lane [0..1]
The target object in the connection type: Lane belongs to (CT_BELONGS_TO_1) lane CT: Lane belongs to lane
Lane
inherits from BaseElement
Object type: Lane (OT_BPMN_LANE) Symbol: Lane (ST_BPMN_LANE_1)
 
name: string
Attribute type Name (AT_NAME) of object type Lane (OT_BPMN_LANE)
 
partitionElement: BaseElement [0..1]
Currently not implemented.
 
partitionElementRef: BaseElement [0..1]
Currently not implemented.
 
childLaneSet: LaneSet [0..1]
The source objects in the connection type: Lane belongs to (CT_BELONGS_TO_1) lane
 
flowElementRefs: FlowElement [0..*]
The source objects in the following belongs to (CT_BELONGS_TO_1) connection types: * Function belongs to lane * Event belongs to lane * Rule belongs to lane * Cluster/data model belongs to lane * Information carrier belongs to lane