Process List

To create a business process, open the Processes tab in ELMA Designer. You will see the list of all currently available processes.

Fig. 1. The processes tab. The process list.

Next to each process name, you will see the process icon

. If processes are combined into a group, next to a process group you will see the folder icon

. When a group is collapsed,

icon is shown next to the folder icon; click on it to expand the group and view all the items it contains. In the Fig. 1 the Sales Processes group is collapsed.

When a group is expanded, the

icon appears next to the folder icon; click on it to collapse the group and hide the items it contains.

The

and

characters also appear next to a process icon if the process includes internal sub-processes. In the screenshot above the Leave Request process includes a sub-process.

The published processes which have saved but not published changes are in bold type.

The process list also displays the following data:

Version – The latest published version of the process.
Visibility – Shows if the process will be displayed in the list of processes that users can start in Web Application. If this parameter is set to No, the process can be started only from the ELMA object page and with appropriate settings.
Allowed to start – Shows if users have permissions to start the process in Web Application.
Author – The user who created the process. The author name does not change even if other users modify the process
Date created – The date and time when the process was added to the system.
Date modified – The date and time when the process was modified in the system.
Date published – The date and time when the current version was published in Web Application.

Toolbar and Context Menu of a Process List

To perform operations with processes and process groups use the toolbar at the top of the Designer window, or the context menu. To open the context menu, right-click in the process list.

Fig. 2. The toolbar and the context menu of the process list.

Actions with Process List Items

Context menu	Toolbar	Operation
		Start the Process Creation Wizard.
		Start modeling the selected process. This button and the menu item are disabled unless you select a process or a group.
		Delete the selected process or the process group. If you delete a group, all the sub-groups and sub-processes move to a higher level. This button and the menu item are disabled unless you select a process or a group.
n/a		Start the Documentation Wizard for the current business process or a group of business processes.
n/a		Start the Process Import Wizard to import an XPDL file into ELMA.
	n/a	Open a dialog box to rename a selected process or a group of processes as well as to change the parent group.
	n/a	Open a dialog box to create a new process group.
	n/a	Open a dialog box to copy a process.

Actions available for bulk-selecting list elements

While working with a list of processes, you may need to perform one action on several items. For this purpose, you can select several items from the list at the same time (fig. 3).

Fig. 3. The toolbar and the context menu of the process list with bulk-selecting

In order to choose several successive processes from a list, click on the first process that you want to choose, and while holding the Shift key, click on the last process.

In order to choose several non-successive processes, click on one of them while holding the Ctrl key and choose all the necessary processes.

When you bulk-select elements, these actions in the context menu become unavailable:

Rename / Move;
Edit Process;
Copy Process.

If you click the Delete button, all the elements from the list will be deleted. Please note that if you cancel deleting, the elements are not deselected.

Process list search

In ELMA, you can search processes in the list. To start searching, open the Processes tab of ELMA Designer and press Ctrl+F. The search string will appear (fig. 4).

Fig. 4. Process search string

Enter a process name or a part of a name. The search results will be displayed below the search string (fig. 5).

Fig. 5. Process search results

To return to the full process list, clear the search string.

To close the string, click

next to it.