Designing Business Processes in the Sun Business Process Manager

Adding Activities

There are several different kinds of activities you can include in a BP model. For more information about each of the different kinds of activities you can use and an illustration of their toolbar icons, see Business Process Activities.

ProcedureTo add activities

  1. Do one of the following:

    • On the Business Process Designer toolbar, click the activity icon and drag it to the canvas.

    • For intermediate or branching activities, click Intermediate Events or Branching Activities on the Business Process Designer toolbar, click the activity you want to use, and then drag it to the canvas.

  2. Click the activity name and type a new name for the activity. This is optional. You can accept the default name.


    Note –

    The activity name must contain at least one character (A-Z, a-z, or 0-9), it must start with a letter or an underscore (_), and it can contain spaces.


  3. Add Java CAPS components from the Project Explorer as described in Adding Components from the Project Explorer (optional).

  4. Link the activities as described in Linking Modeling Elements.