You can create process diagrams to illustrate the relationships
between processes. When you publish a method Web site, you can choose whether
or not to include these diagrams.
You can create three types of diagrams:
- Activity Diagrams
- These diagrams show how the child process elements of a process, activity,
phase, or iteration flow together. This diagram is also used to show the sequence
of tasks for an activity that consists of a set of tasks. You can create an
activity diagram or you can specify your own image for the diagram. When you
create the diagram the sequence of activities, or control flow, depicted in
your diagram is reflected in the precedence for these activities in your work
breakdown structure. Create these diagrams from the Work Breakdown
Structure tab by right-clicking the activity and selecting . To specify your own diagram image, click .
- Activity Detail Diagrams
- These diagrams show tasks within activities arranged by the responsible
role that performs them. Activity detail diagrams also show the mandatory
input and output work products for each task. Create these diagrams from the Work
Breakdown Structure tab by right-clicking the activity and selecting . These diagrams are generated automatically when you publish
your configuration. You can also specify your own image to be used for these
diagrams by right-clicking the activity and selecting .
- Work Product Dependency Diagrams
- These diagrams are used to illustrate the traceability of the work products
for a particular activity in your process. A work product dependency diagram
also shows how one or more work products are used in the creation of another
work product in the activity. These diagrams must be created manually. Relationships
depicted in these diagrams are not reflected elsewhere in your process. Create
these diagrams from the Work Product Usage tab by right-clicking
the activity and then selecting .
You can also specify your own diagram image to use for this diagram by selecting .
Publishing your diagrams
When you publish your configuration
you may want to include some or all of your process diagrams. You can control
which diagrams are published as follows:
- By default, every diagram that you create is published. You can choose
not to publish a particular diagram by right-clicking the element that has
a diagram that you do not want to publish and selecting . A window opens listing
each diagram that you created for this element. Clear the diagrams that you
do not want to be published.
- You can choose to automatically generate activity detail diagrams. To
do so, when you publish your configuration, choose the option Publish
activity detail diagrams that have not been manually created.
To set this option as the default whenever you open the publishing wizard,
specify this preference in , and then select Publish activity
detail diagrams that have not been created in process editor.
This setting also generates activity detail diagrams when you browse your
process in the tool.