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Object: Events

Events are states relevant to a process flow and are used to indicate how a sequence flow is triggered, what significant events happen as it progresses (e.g., occurred or self-triggered events), and…

Dennis Reichle
Updated by Dennis Reichle

Events are states relevant to a process flow and are used to indicate how a sequence flow is triggered, what significant events happen as it progresses (e.g., occurred or self-triggered events), and how the process ends.

Event categories

These blank events are available directly in the Process Designer toolbar. If required, they can be further specified using the event types below.

Start event

Intermediate event

End event

Timer Event

Indicates the beginning of a process flow.

Indicates events that occur during the process flow (between start and end).

Indicates the end of a process flow.

Indicates cyclically occurring events, points in time, time spans or timeouts

With a right click or double click on an event symbol the name displayed in the process model can be changed in the field 'Name'.

The formatting options for events correspond to the general options for all objects.

Event types

In addition to the standard symbols, all other variants from BPMN 2.0 are available for events. By right-clicking on a standard symbol, the following can be selected under 'Change event type to':

Start event

Intermediate catch event

Intermediate throw

Final event

Additional types

Boundary interrupting

Boundary non interrupting

Start event sub-process interrupting

Start event sub-process non interrupting

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