Participants represent companies, departments, or roles who are involved in a collaboration. Participants are represented as swimlanes in collaboration and process diagrams and as square nodes in conversation diagrams. In choreography diagrams, participants do not have a separate symbol but are displayed on the top or bottom band of the choreography task symbol.
Participants are based on standard BPM organization units (see Organization Units (BPM)), and have the following additional properties:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Multi-instance | The participant symbol represents multiple instances of the specified role. |