Show bpmn:Documentation on diagram canvas

[nikku]

Use Case

• User documents BPMN elements using the elements bpmn:Documentation tag
• User wants to see the documentation directly on the diagram

Invesitigate

• Is this something we'd like to support in the future?
• Maybe via a feature toggle / overlay that shows the embedded documentation?

This is already supported by the famous property-info-plugin.

[Kapi]

Hi,

I would like to push this use case.

Part of our development process is a specification. That is a large documentation for the developers to implement our process requirements. In this specification each activity is specificed separately. Because there are a lot of complex activities we also write a short business summary (2-3 sentences and also includes the input and output variables) for each activity. The developers copy this to bpmn:Documentation.

Espacilly for the developers and the specifier this short summaries are very helpful to analyse incidents and localice failures. Also its helpful to integrate new colleagues.

Maybe there could be a small symbol on each activity that changes the visibility of the documentation while hover. This would be more comfortable.

Martin (specifier)