Updating the environment


The Update Environment command lets you graphically spread your modifications from the diagram to the decomposed process level.

When working with decomposed processes, the modifications you bring to your diagram are not automatically transferred to all levels. Hence, if you attach a new flow to a decomposed process and move down to the level of the decomposed process, you won’t be able to see the new flow. To visualize these changes, you have to update the environment.

To update the environment:
  1. Click on the decomposed process (the superprocess).
  2. From the Tools menu, select Update Environment.
The Update Environment function updates flows if they are linked to the decomposed process. For each flow, the application seeks a corresponding subflow among component flows of the process. The way in which the equivalence is set depends on the context.

When the equivalence can not be set, the function adds a corresponding flow as component of the process. Remember, each new flow has the same properties as the decomposed flow. Furthermore, this decomposed flow will be the new flow’s superflow.

Following the semantic verification of the environment, an graphic update operation is performed for each diagram of the process. We then make sure that each linked flow, process, store and external entity have a graphic representation in each diagram.