You can publish a document with the specifications of a flow. You can configure the level of detail of the information that is added to the document.

You can find and download the published document on the Business process file share workspace, on the Documents tab.


Standard procedure

1. Click Business process modeling.
2. Click Flows.
3. In the list, find and select the desired record.
4. Click Publish.
5. Click Flow Specification.
6. On the Publish Flow Specification document dialog, define the required settings and click OK.
7. Close the page.

Notes

You can also publish a flow specification document from the Flow view form. To do so, on the Action pane, on the Publish tab, in the Documents group, click Flow specification.

On the Publish flow specification document dialog, you can define these settings:

  • Language - If you have defined translations for the flow, select the language in which you want to publish the flow specification. The elements in your flow that are not translated into this language are published in the original language.
  • Include flow summary - If this check box is selected, a table with the flow objects is added to the document. For each flow object, this information is shown: Type, Title, and Responsible (only if type is Flow activity or Data object).
  • Include flow details - Define whether and how to add detailed flow information to the document.
    • Not included - No detailed flow information is added to the document.
    • Summary - A table with the flow objects is added to the document. For each flow object, this information is shown: Type, Title, and Responsible (only if type is Flow activity or Data object).
    • Details - The detailed information of the flow objects is added to the document. This includes: the descriptions of all flow objects and the steps and notes of the flow activities.
  • Sub flow - Define whether and how to add detailed sub-process information to the document. Note: These are the sub-processes that are added as object to the flow.
    • Not included - No detailed sub-process information is added to the document.
    • Summary - A table with the flow objects of the sub-process is added to the document. For each flow object, this information is shown: Type, Title, and Responsible (only if type is Flow activity or Data object).
    • Details - The detailed information of the flow objects of the sub-processes is added to the document. This includes: the descriptions of all flow objects and the steps and notes of the flow activities.
  • Attachment lists - If this check box is selected, a list with attachment is added to each business process or activity with attachment.
  • Include version number - If this check box is selected, the version number of each element is added to the document.
  • Include change history - If this check box is selected, the change history of each element is added to the document.
  • Number of change history records - You can define the maximum number of change history records that is published for each element. For example, if you enter 3, only the latest three changes to the element are published.

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