Participants represent companies, departments, or roles who are involved in a collaboration. Participants are represented as swimming pools in collaboration and process diagrams and lanes as swimlanes inside a pool. Participants also appear in conversation diagrams as square node and in choreography diagrams, where they do not have a separate symbol but are displayed on the top or bottom band of the choreography task symbol.
Participants and lanes are based on standard BPM organization units (see Organization Units ( BPM)). Participants have the following additional property:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Multi-instance | The participant symbol represents multiple instances of the specified role. |
To create a new participant, select the Organization Unit Swimlane tool and click in empty space in a collaboration diagram. This will create your participant with a single lane and an associated process that willl contain all the associated events, activities, gateways, data and flows. To add further lanes to the participant click on it with the Organization Unit Swimlane tool.