Process diagram preview

If you press the Auto arrange button in Arrangement group in the Design tab you consciously want to switch to automatic arrangement. However, the automatic arrangement is also triggered when you

There may be two reasons why you want to change the process diagram layout having already made some manual adjustments to the current process layout:

Engage Process Modeler assumes that the first possibility is the most probable one so it creates a read-only preview of your diagram in this case and opens it in a new diagram tab. The yellow bar above the preview allows you to decide if you want really to apply this layout to the process.

Press Apply this layout button if you want to rearrange the current layout of your process.

Press a cross in Process (read only - preview) tab to close the preview.

If you decide to apply this layout the following message will be shown:

Engage Process Modeler will automatically save the previous layout as the diagram version. You can find it and reopen by pressing Diagram version history button from the Versioning group in the Collaboration tab. The version will be in the Archived state with the automatically created description "Previous layout".

There can be at most one preview for each open process diagram. So, if you switch, e.g., to roles swim lane preview and then go back to the original diagram and switch to value added swim lane preview then the roles swim lane preview will be automatically closed.

Since the preview tab must show the same process as the original diagram tab the preview is automatically closed as soon as you apply any change to the original diagram.

You can apply some operations to the diagram preview. You can print diagram and report, you can go to the full screen and you can create on screen reports. You can also expand/collapse subprocesses and process links. However, these changes to the preview will be not included when you press the Apply this layout button.