Design Diagram
Design Diagram Overview
The Design Diagram is the core component in data augmented modeling. With the Design Diagram, it's possible to show the operations in the company from different viewpoints at the same time. The Design Diagram works only when the currently selected model is a Snowflake model. A model can have multiple Design Diagrams associated with it.
The Design Diagram has a Canvas for drawing, a Symbol Palette that contains symbols for each type of object in the event log of the currently selected model, and a Toolbar with various editing functionalities.
The basic flow of using the Design Diagram is the following:
- Drag objects, e.g. process steps, roles, and applications, from the Symbol palette to the canvas.
- For each object on the canvas, choose which event log object in the model you want to link it to. It's also possible to not do this linking and name the object yourself.
- Drag flows from the Symbol palette to the canvas and connect the flows to the objects to visualize how the objects are linked and interact with each other in the enterprise.
The Design Diagram also has a fullscreen mode which expands the diagram to the entire screen. The fullscreen is available via the icon on the top right corner of the diagram. The fullscreen can be disabled by clicking the cross icon in the top right corner.
Symbol Palette
The Symbol Palette is located on the left side of the Canvas and it's visible in the dashboard Edit mode. The Symbol Palette shows the Objects and Connectors categories. The Objects category contains an item for each textual event attribute in the currently selected model (except for event attributes that are mapped to case ids). The Connectors category contains only one item, Flow, that can connect objects in the canvas.