Process chains: how processes connect

An area’s chain is the processes inside it: there is no separate chain to create. Right-click a box on the map › Add child process › As a child to start one, or › Open chain view for an area that has processes: its processes, as chevrons, and the connections between them. A box that is one process gets a flow instead (› Add child view › Flow view). Connections have no direction; tick Show direction for arrows from the hand-offs.

• Drawn (dashed): you connected them, from Connect or a process’s right-click menu. Modelling top down, draw these first.
• Confirmed (solid): drawn, and a hand-off between their process flows backs it up.
• From hand-offs only (faint): their flows hand over to each other but no connection is drawn. Click it and Draw it on the map.
• Drawn, not in the flows (amber): both have flows and none hand over to the other. It shows under to check, and in the map’s issues.

Below the chain are the processes outside the area that its processes hand over to or from. Double-click one for the chain it is in.

More on process maps and the explorer

• Typing a process map as an outline
• The explorer
• Map health and the clean-up review

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