Even if the functionalities already covered in this chapter are enough to create a process, the Web Process Designer has some other features that will make life easier. These features include things like importing existing process definitions into the designer, validating our processes, creating custom task nodes, and so on.
Let's cover these features now to improve our productivity in the designer.
Sometimes, we already have a process definition outside of the KIE Workbench that we want to modify. One example is all of the .bpmn2 files that come with the source code of this book; another example would be if someone e-mails us a process definition that they are working on. The Web Process Designer has a feature to allow importing these files and creating a visual representation. In the toolbar, there's the Import Definition menu that we can use if we want to import an existing process definition. The supported languages...