Reusing Processes in a Hierarchy

You can reuse a process that already exists in your hierarchy in order to avoid duplicating its functions in your model.

1. Right-click the process within which you want to reuse the process, and select Reuse Process to open a selection dialog, which lists all the other processes available in the model.
   Note: The Reuse Process command is intended to provide a quick means for creating shortcuts to processes in your Process Hierarchy Diagram, primarily when working with the Analysis language, and is not available in other BPM diagrams. For some languages it is hidden completely. If you are working with BPMN or an execution language, it may be more appropriate to set the implementation type of the process reusing another process to Reuse process or Execute operation (seeImplementing Processes).
2. Select the process that you want to reuse and click OK.

   A shortcut to the selected process is added as a sub-process to the first process.

   Note: You cannot decompose the shortcut or expand its hierarchy, even if its target object has sub-processes.