A new series of training videos have been posted on Office.com to introduce Visio users to Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). The videos are packaged as a course named BPMN Diagramming Basics.
The course provides both an introduction to the BPMN notation and a tutorial on creating BPMN diagrams with Visio 2010 Premium. Along the way you can see some of the other new features of Visio 2010 including Swimlanes, AutoConnect, Subprocesses, and Diagram Validation. The complete course takes less than 30 minutes to view.
Please remember that the BPMN, Subprocess, and Diagram Validation features are part of the Premium Edition of Visio 2010.
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Why doesn't Visio have a style system for individual shapes? E.g. a way of saying setting multiple properties (fill, border & shadow) in a way that is consistent with the theme.
When I align a shape on the grid, then zoom in, why is it no longer aligned to the grid?
I don't understand how you can have diagramming software that has been in development for almost 20 years, and yet have such obvious feature omissions and bugs.
HiJon,
Visio 2010 has rich UI and if you want to color activities inside visio diagram you can do it, means you do not need to write any style sheet type of thing for all activities or shapes. And I just design my diagram for business processes representation.
Thanks
Zak
Excellent ideos, simple and very self explanatory. Would use them for teaching BPMN.
How to create the BPMN models from visio standard 2010 in .bpmn extension rather than .vsd extension.