The Explorer Menu

Learn how to organize your content in a folder structure using the Explorer.

New

In the dropdown menu New, you can create new folders and diagrams. The new folder is created at the location that is currently open in the explorer. If you create a new diagram, a blank canvas opens in the editor in a new tab. The menu item QuickModel opens a new BPMN 2.0 diagram in QuickModel.

Edit

Here, you can open the editor or QuickModel to edit diagrams, simulate BPMN (see BPMN Simulation) and DMN (see DMN simulation) diagrams and test DMN diagrams (The DMN Test lab). To gain an overview of activities about a specific diagram you can display comments on diagrams in SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub and compare versions of diagrams (see Comparison). The folder content currently displayed in the explorer can be moved, copied, deleted, and renamed. BPMN 1.2 diagrams can also be migrated to the newer BPMN 2.0 format.

Import/Export

You can import and export files. This means you are able to upload files to your workspace and also download diagrams from your workspace onto your computer in different formats.

Reporting

The Reporting menu allows you to create different kinds of reports about diagrams. This enables you as a business user to analyze your process hierarchy offline with decision makers and analysts, regardless of your familiarity with BPMN modeling.

To view and export reports analyzing your workspace and process model usage, see section Process Model Dashboards.

Share

With the Share menu, you can publish diagrams to SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub and share documents in a variety of ways with your colleagues.

Process Governance

Approval workflows are evaluating processes that diagrams have to go through before they are automatically published to SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub. You can start approval workflows as well as edit published diagrams. Approval workflows are managed and executed in SAP Signavio Process Governance. If you are interested in further functionalities of SAP Signavio Process Governance, you can get more information here: https://www.signavio.com/products/process-governance/Information published on non-SAP site.

Invitations to comment/edit

You can invite modelers to edit. You can also use it to invite SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub users and external stakeholders to comment on diagrams.

Invite to comment

You can invite anyone to comment on a diagram - all you need is their email address. Everyone you invited receives an email. Anyone you invite who is not already a member of your workspace needs to register and is assigned a commenting license.

Invite modeler to edit

You can invite modelers registered in your workspace to edit a diagram. As all modelers are able to edit all diagrams in the Shared documents folder by default, this function serves as notification to let fellow modelers know a diagram needs their attention. You can clarify the reason why you are pointing a modeler towards a certain diagram by editing the text of the email in the invitation dialog. The link you send leads directly to the diagram, open and ready to be edited.

The option to Invite to edit diagram in QuickModel follows the same basic concept, only instead of the Editor, the link leads to the diagram in QuickModel.

Invite to SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub

If you select this option, you can send an invitation to any e-mail address.

Embed diagram

With the dialog that opens, you can embed the corresponding diagram into external systems (see Embedding diagrams in external systems).