Showing and Hiding Activities

ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide

Showing and Hiding Activities

You can preserve Process Editor real estate in the following ways:

Expand and collapse container activities
Drill down into a collapsed container to temporarily see its contents
Change the process detail level displayed

Expanding, Collapsing, and Drilling Down into Container Activities

You can collapse the display of container/control flow activities. These activities include sequence and flow (ActiveVOS Classic only), fork join (BPMN only), if, while, pick, scope, repeat until, and for each.

When an activity is collapsed, select the plus icon to temporarily drill down into the activity to view its contents. Use the bread crumb display or the Navigate>Back command to collapse the activity.

To collapse an activity, such as a scope, select Collapse Container (or Control Flow) from the right-mouse menu. The small icon, illustrated in the collapsed scope below, indicates the container is collapsed. To expand a container, select Expand Container (or Control Flow) from the right-mouse menu.

Collapsed container

Tips for using Expand, Collapse, and Drill Down

When an activity is collapsed, select the plus icon to drill down into the contents. Alternately, from the right-mouse menu, select Go Into Activity (Ctrl + Alt + L).
By default, the link style changes to a dotted line for a link with one or more targets in a collapsed container, as the example above shows
You can Expand All Containers and Collapse All Containers from the Process menu or from a blank spot on the Process Editor. Right-mouse select these options from the Process Editor.
You can set a preference to control the positioning of expanded and collapsed containers in relation to other activities. The setting affects the overall look of the process design. For details, see Layout Preferences.
You can Undo expand/collapse moves if you do not like the results

Changing the Process Detail Level

You can select a level of detail to show for a process. Level five is the default, and shows the entire process. Levels one through four hide various types of activities and containers to provide a larger-grained view of the process flow. To select a detail level, use the toolbar button, or right-click on any activity to select Detail Level. Any hidden activity can be displayed by selecting it in the Outline view.