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Practical Business Process Modeling and Analysis
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In Chapter 8, we learned about the most important types of start and end events that define the scope of a process. However, it’s worth knowing that BPMN also allows you to model intermediate events, which, as the name implies, occur during the process: after the process begins and before the process ends.
BPMN also allows the use of more complicated types of start and end events—we will deal with them in this chapter too. We’ll begin our discussion of the more advanced elements of BPMN with events because they are a big part of all BPMN objects. In addition, without events, it is difficult to understand the use of many other advanced elements of the notation.
Intermediate events are represented as circles with an icon in the center, indicating their trigger, just like all other events. However, you can easily distinguish them from start and end events by looking at their border. While start...