Designing and Implementing Business Process Models : Modeling BPMN 1.x in ARIS : Introduction : Events : Trigger Specific event symbol numbers (Updated with the last Service Release)
Trigger Specific event symbol numbers (Updated with the last Service Release)
The above specified mechanism for the event trigger selection via the ARIS attribute AT_BPMN_EV_TYPE (Message, Link, Multiple etc…) has been extended with a new symbol number specific approach. Additionally to the above mentioned general event symbol numbers the following new (trigger specific) event symbols were added to the latest ARIS version:
BPMN event name
ARIS Symbol Number (API-Name)
Message Start Event
ST_BPMN_MSG_SE
Message Intermediate Event
ST_BPMN_MSG_IE
Message End Event
ST_BPMN_MSG_EE
 
 
Link Start Event
ST_BPMN_LINK_SE
Link Intermediate Event
ST_BPMN_LINK_IE
Link End Event
ST_BPMN_LINK_EE
 
 
Multiple Start Event
ST_BPMN_MULTIPLE_SE
Multiple Intermediate Event
ST_BPMN_MULTIPLE_IE
Multiple End Event
ST_BPMN_MULTIPLE_EE
 
 
Error Intermediate Event
ST_BPMN_ERROR_IE
Error End Event
ST_BPMN_ERROR_EE
 
 
Cancel Intermediate Event
ST_BPMN_CANCEL_IE
Cancel End Event
ST_BPMN_CANCEL_EE
 
 
Compensation Intermediate Event
ST_BPMN_COMPENSATION_IE
Compensation End Event
ST_BPMN_COMPENSATION_EE
 
 
Terminate End Event
ST_BPMN_TERMINATE_EE
A modeling project should stick to one of the two trigger definition approaches (attribute based or symbol number based).
The symbol number based approach is more convinient for the modeler because he doesn’t have to maintain the trigger type attribute for each placed event. The attribute based approach has the advantage that ARIS ensures the same event type for every occurrence of the same object definition.
The provided BPMN semantic checks can handle both trigger definition approaches.
If the symbol number specific approach is being used the attribute AT_BPMN_EV_TYPE should either be set to the correct event type or should be left unmaintained (because the export logic can use the symbol number to determine the effective event type).
However, if the symbol number specific approach is being used the ARIS Attribute AT_BPMN_EV_TYPE MUST NOT be set to a conflicting event type.
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