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BPMN Diagrams – Never Too Late For An Intermediate Timer Event

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Business process modeling in the real world requires us to represent how processes deal with exceptions, delays and deadlines. Intermediate timer events can be used to model deadlines and the business processes for handling them. See an example of how to model a business process where two deadlines expire and the business responds.

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BPMN Diagrams – Wait For An Intermediate Timer Event

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Business process modeling requires us to model behaviors of people and organizations. Those behaviors often involve waiting. Prescribed delays, or waiting for a specific time or date is what we can represent with an intermediate timer event in the sequence flow of a BPMN diagram. This article shows an example of how to model this delay in a business process.

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BPMN Diagrams – Boundary Intermediate Message Events

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Intermediate message events can be placed on an activity boundary in BPMN. This use represents a form of exception handling for a task or sub-process, in response to an incoming message. This is a very different behavior than the ones we previously described, which show how to use intermediate message events in the course of the normal sequence flow of a business process.

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BPMN Diagrams – Flowing Intermediate Message Events

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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]