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General objects in BPMN

The five basic categories of elements are:

  • Flow objects

  • Data

  • Connecting objects

  • Swimlanes

  • Artifacts

Flow Objects are the main graphical elements to define the behavior of a business process. There are three flow objects:

  • Events

  • Activities

  • Gateways

Data is represented with four elements:

  • Data objects

  • Data inputs

  • Data outputs

  • Data stores

There are four ways of connecting the flow objects to each other or other information. There are four connecting objects:

  • Sequence flow

  • Message flow

  • Associations

  • Data associations

There are two ways of grouping the primary modeling elements through swimlanes:

  • Pools

  • Lanes

Artifacts are used to provide additional information about the process. There are two standardized artifacts

  • Group

  • Text annotation