Process Properties

To view or edit a process's properties, double-click its diagram symbol or Browser or list entry. The property sheet tabs and fields listed here are those available by default, before any customization of the interface by you or an administrator.

The General tab contains the following properties:

Property	Description
Name/Code/Comment	Identify the object. The name should clearly convey the object's purpose to non-technical users, while the code, which is used for generating code or scripts, may be abbreviated, and should not normally include spaces. You can optionally add a comment to provide more detailed information about the object. By default the code is generated from the name by applying the naming conventions specified in the model options. To decouple name-code synchronization, click to release the = button to the right of the Code field.
Stereotype	Extends the semantics of the object. You can enter a stereotype directly in this field, or add stereotypes to the list by specifying them in an extension file.
Organization unit	Specifies the organization unit (see Organization Units ( BPM)) that performs the process. Select `<Committee Process>` to specify that it is realized by multiple organization units (see Displaying a Committee Process). Click the Properties tool beside this box to open the property sheet of the selected organization unit or the Ellipsis tool to open the list of organization units and create new ones.
Timeout	Specifies the timeout limit, which is, by default zero. You can specify any alphanumeric value (for example, `20 seconds`) to indicate that a timeout exception occurs if the execution of the activation takes longer than that.
Duration	Specifies the estimated or statistic duration to execute the action. This property is used for documentation purposes.
Composite status	Specifies whether the process contains sub-processes. You can choose between: Atomic Process (default) – the process does not contain any sub-processes. Decomposed Process – the process can contain sub-processes, which are listed on a Sub-Processes tab and can be displayed in a business process diagram under the process (see Decomposing Processes). If you revert the process from Decomposed to Atomic status, then any sub-processes that you have created will be deleted.
Number ID	Specifies an incrementing number to help you identify processes. You can modify this value at any time by entering an integer greater than 0. Any change you make will not, by default, affect other numbers in the series. Process numbering is commonly used in data flow diagrams (see Data Flow Diagram (DFD)).
Keywords	Provide a way of loosely grouping objects through tagging. To enter multiple keywords, separate them with commas.

The following tabs are also available:

Implementation - Specifies how the process is implemented (see Implementing Processes).
Assignments - [processes with the Assign implementation type] Lists the data transformations (see Data Transformations (BPM)) required for the atomic assign tasks that compose the activity.
Sub-Processes - [decomposed processes] Lists the sub-processes contained in the process (see Decomposing Processes).
Local Variables - [orchestration language decomposed processes] Lists the variables (see Variables (BPM)) local to the current process. Variables are mainly used to build the messages the process sends to its partners.
Data - [Analysis and Data Flow Diagram languages] Lists the data associated with the process. Use the Add Objects and Create an Object tools to add items to the list and select the appropriate CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) columns to specify the types of action the process can perform on the data (see Data (BPM)).
Note: You can migrate the data of a flow to its source or destination process, using the Migrate to Destination Process and Migrate to Source Process tools in the flow property sheet (see Migrating the Data of a Flow to a Process).