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.
To add a step to a swimlane
1. Click the button on the Palette that represents the type of step you want to add.
2. Click the spot in the swimlane where you want to place the step.
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.