Lane

Activity description

The Lane Activity is used to create a swim-lane in the process model.

Application Scenarios

The Lane activity is a useful tool for process modeling. It can be placed around a set of activities in the process to denote a swim-lane in a process execution pool. This helps to streamline the process diagram. In the image shown below there are two lanes representing two types of enquiries handled in the process, i.e. Support Enquiry and Sales Enquiry.

Sample Lanes in a Pool

Activity Properties

The Lane activity has to be configured by specifying appropriate values for the different properties in the Activity Properties area. The Activity Properties can be accessed by clicking the Activity Properties tool in the tool bar or by selecting the appropriate option from the context menu for the Lane activity. The Activity Properties are organized under the following groups of related properties. The properties under each group are described in this topic.

Name & Description

The properties in the Name & Description group have been described below. You can use these properties to specify the name and description for the activity.

Name - This property can be used to specify a name for the activity.

Property Type: Optional (This property needs to be set only if necessary.)

Description - This property specifies a brief description to be displayed for the activity.

Property Type: Optional (This property needs to be set only if necessary.)

Activity outputs:

The Lane Activity does not return any value.

Exception Behavior

Each activity has the Raise Error on Unhandled Linked Output property on click of which, it shows all the default configured mapped error outputs in red with their check boxes selected.

See Mapped Error Output for more details.