Creating Views

You can create different views for different audiences. In a view, you include what you want to show an audience and exclude what the audience does not need to see.

When viewing a diagram in SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub, available views can be selected.

Examples for using different views of process models:

  • A model contains both user activities and elements for technical implementation. The audience wants to focus on the technical implementation.

  • A model contains the expected path of a process and a number of exceptions. The audience doesn't need to see the exceptions.

You can create as many views as you need.

Creating and Editing Views

  1. Open the diagram to whoch you want to add a view.

  2. In the right panel, go to Views. All available views are listed.

    • To create a new view, choose Create new view.

    • To configure an existing view, select the view.

  3. In the view configuration, select the objects to exclude from a view.

    You can preview the result and the original diagram.

  4. Enter a name and a description for your view.

  5. Save your changes

Navigate the View Configuration

Select and drag a preview to scroll to other areas of the diagram.

You can zoom in and out of the diagrams and use the minimap.

By default, you move both diagram versions in the preview. To move the diagrams separately, disable synchronous scrolling.

Editing a View

You can exclude all Comments , Data objects, IT Systems, or Roles.

  • Data objects: contains data objects, data storage and messages

  • IT Systems: contains IT systems

  • Roles: contains pools, lanes, collapsed pools and additional participants

  • Comments: contains all comments on the diagram

You can show or hide each element. In the original view, disable elements to exclude them from a view.

For pools, you have additional options. Select an option from the drop-down list at the bottom of the pool.

  • Pool is opened: The pool and its content are included in the view. You can define view options for all contained elements.

  • Pool is collapsed: The pool content is not shown.

  • Only content: No roles that are defined by the pool and its lanes are shown. Message flows attached to the pool are hidden.

  • Pool is hidden: Neither the pool nor its content is included in the view. Message flows attached to the pool are hidden.

When you uncheck a pool, all elements in that pool are excluded from a view.

To keep the original diagram size and the original placement of the shown elements, disableReduce free space.

The preview is refreshed after every change.

Duplicate a View

To create a duplicate view from an existing view, follow these steps:

  1. Choose the original view to open it.

  2. Edit the view.

  3. Choose Save as duplicate.

  4. Enter a name for the new view and choose OK.

    A new view is created.

Delete a View

  1. Select the view to open it.

  2. Choose Delete view.

  3. Confirm the deletion in the dialog.

    The view is deleted.

Export Views

You can include views when you export a diagram as an SVG, PNG, PDF, or a BPMN 2.0 XML file. The SGX export contains all views for a diagram. Read more about exporting diagrams in section Downloading/exporting diagrams.

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