Flow Object Overview

A flow object models a step in a business process.
The following table describes different categories of flow objects:
Category Description Flow Object
Activity Activities represent the work that companies perform.
  • Interactive
  • Decision
  • Automatic
  • Group
  • Subflow
  • Process Creation
  • Termination Wait
  • Grab
Gateway Gateways control the divergence and convergence of the process flow. They determine if the paths branch, fork, merge or join to other paths.
  • Conditional
  • Split
  • Or-Split
  • Multiple
Event Events affect the process flow. They happen during the course of a business process. They generally have a cause and an impact.
  • Message Wait
  • Send Message
  • Timer
  • Compensate
Global Activity Global activities handle global requirements that are not associated with a specific process instance.
  • Global Creation
  • Global Automatic
  • Global Interactive
Artifact Artifacts provide additional information about the process.
  • Measurement Mark
Parent topic: Flow Objects