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Status Needs more information
Workspace Blueworks Live
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 22, 2025

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Positioning of boundary events and flow paths on collapsed/expanded sub-processes

When adding a boundary event to a sub-process, when you expand the sub-process the flow paths from the boundary events do not originate at the actual boundary events and instead sometimes appear center bottom of the expanded sub-process. This makes them overlap and it's near impossible to understand what's happening visually. Additionally, the boundary events are repositioned to the bottom of the expanded sub-process. Yes, you can collapse the sub-process but then you can't see the constituent activities of the sub-process. Boundary events and sub-processes are very important for illustrating interrupting behavior or even additional spawned execution paths during the execution of a sub-process. This has been an issue for a long time in Blueworks Live.

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Laurence May
    Nov 7, 2025

    HI Phillip, many thanks for highlighting this, what I would like to suggest is that our senior architect and myself have a brief mtg with you so you can show us an example of how this is working currently for you. We tried to recreate an example to test your suggestions but couldnt recreate the same issue. So it would be very helpful if you are willing to meet with us briefly and show the challenge over a call. Are you ok with this ? If so, please let me know a couple of available slots for us to meet. Please note that it will need to be early morning in your timezone if possible. Many thanks Laurence

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