How to attach my BPMN process into pool?

[banidja]

Hello,

I'm noobie in EA and BPMN 2.0 so currently I'm making my first diagram. In the middle of process I realized that need to have collaboration between 2 stakeholders. Now that I'm almost finished with one stakeholder I need to put all what I've done into one pool and send message to the other pool and induce the second part of the process...

Can I do it without erasing (or copying step by step) the process, simply drag and drop into the pool I dragged and dropped earlier?

Thank you 

[Eve]

If you've already modeled a single process I'd be:

• Moving the diagram an all elements into a Business Process element. That is the element that allow referencing this process.
• What other participants are there in this process? Add a pool for them (and let EA place it in a Collaboration model) Initially these will probably be black box meaning you're not attempting to define the process that participant is following
• Look for any places where your process requires input or waits for another participant. Add a message flow and/or intermediate event into your process from the other pool
• Repeat for any places in your process that you need to provide something to the other participant.
• If you want to model the full process for one or more other participants I'd consider moving your diagram into a collaboration model and wrapping your starting process in a pool representing the process that contains all the elements

The result of that should be a comformant model that any BPMN tool can understand. The process and suggestions are based on my understanding of the BPMN specification and the way EA works to support that specification. I believe I know those two points reasonably well, but I'm not really a BPMN modeler. Actual BPMN modelers may have different opinions.

[banidja]

Hi Eve,

Thank you for the reply. I was notified today so I did not respond and show my gratitude earlier.
Best regards!