One of the 9 intermediate events in BPMN is the message intermediate event. There are two ways to use the message intermediate event, as an element in the sequence flow, or as an attachment to the boundary of an activity for exception processing. See how to use message intermediate events in a sequence flow. [Updated with correction of glaring error on Aug 22nd, 2006]
BPMN Diagrams – How To Use End Events (Part 2)
This is part two of a two part article. The first part is “How To Use End Events (Part 1)”. End events describe how a process ends. Often, the end of one process can initiate other behaviors within a business process. Like death and taxes, every business process has an end. Sometimes more than one.
BPMN Diagrams – How To Use Subprocesses
This article shows how to use the different types of subprocesses in BPMN diagrams. Examples of normal subprocesses, looping, multiple instance, ad hoc, and compensation subprocesses.
BPMN Diagrams – How To Use Gateways
Business process modeling examples showing how to use the five different gateways defined in the BPMN specification.
BPMN Diagrams – How To Use Start Events
Examples showing how and when to use the 6 different types of start events in business process modeling notation (BPMN) diagrams.