Description of different specification tab

General Questions/Discussions
1

Hello,

I was not able to find a good explanation on different specifications tab.
Can you quickly give me the headline?

Thanks
specification headlines.bmp

2

Hi benoit,

Thank you for your post. Here are the descriptions of the specification tabs:

  1. General - general properties such as name, documentation
  2. Assignments - one or more assignment expressions can be made for the objects. For activities (Task, Sub-Process, and Process), the assignment shall be performed as defined by the AssignTime attribute
  3. Categories - modelers may add one or more defined categories that can be used for some purposes, such as reporting and analysis
  4. Relations - the relations models (e.g. sequence flow, message flow) associated with this model
  5. References - allow add/edit/remove/open of artifacts (e.g. files, URLs) related to this model
  6. Comments - allow add/edit/remove/open of comments (e.g. reason for modifying a property at a certain time) related to this model

I hope these can help. If there are any inquiries, please feel free to ask.

Best regards,
Lilian Wong

3

Hi Lilian,

I had the same question as the original poster. Would you be able to provide an example where Assignments are used? I am still unclear on how to make use of this tab.

Thanks,
-Ed

4

Hi rios,

Thanks for your post. For the example, you can refer to section 11.15 in “Business Process Modeling Notation Specification” (OMG Final Adopted Specification, 2006-02-01). You can also get more details about Assignment in the specification.

The specification can be downloaded in http://www.bpmn.org/Documents/OMG%20Final%20Adopted%20BPMN%201-0%20Spec%2006-02-01.pdf

I hope these can help. If there are any inquiries, please feel free to contact me again.

Best regards,
Lilian Wong