Adding Steps to Swimlanes

You can drag and drop existing process steps from anywhere on the process editor's canvas into a swimlane. You can create new steps by dragging and dropping a document or service from the Package Navigator. You can also add a new step to a process and place it directly into a swimlane, or paste one or more copied steps into a swimlane.

Tip:

Pools are designed to expand automatically in order to accommodate steps being moved beyond current pool bounds. If you move a step past a certain (Eclipse-determined) point, it will land outside of the pool when you drop it. Expanded subprocesses are especially susceptible to this situation. Designer provides feedback cues to help you determine where a step will land when you drop it. A grey “ghost” image of the new pool bounds is displayed during the drag action when the step is to be dropped inside the pool; if the grey image of the new pool bounds is no longer displayed, your step will land outside the pool.

3. You can also add a step by dragging a document or service from the Package Navigator, or by dragging an existing process or webMethods task from the Solutions view, and dropping it into a swimlane. Finally, you can copy one or more steps and paste them into a swimlane.

Note:

Relative positions of multiple steps is preserved when you paste. If the target process editor's canvas has an asset selected, steps and/or notes and annotations are pasted relative to the selected asset. If there is nothing selected on the target canvas, steps and/or notes and annotations are pasted relative to the top left of the canvas. If you paste a step or a note/annotation very close to the edge of a pool, swimlane, or expanded subprocess, the container expands to accommodate the pasted item.