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3439608 - After importing from Blue Works Live BPMN Diagram looks skewed in the signavio explorer

Symptom

After importing from Blue Works Live BPMN Diagram looks skewed in the signavio explorer

Cause

The BPMN XML file contains elements (all gateways and events) whose sizes are defined to be smaller than our minimum size, i.e.

  • start or end event: width="24.0" height="24.0" while our minimum size is 30
  • gateways: width="32.0" height="32.0" while our minimum size is 40

So during import the size of these elements are changed to our minimum size. The center of the elements can end up being moved thus causing skewed sequence flows to preceding/succeeding elements.

Resolution

Workarounds

  1. Increase the size of all elements in the source tool to the minimum sizes enforced in Signavio 
  2. Adjust the XML file manually or via a script before import
    1. Open the XML file in a text editor
    2. Replace all occurrences of 
      width="32.0" height="32.0" 

      with

      width="40.0" height="40.0" 
    1. Perform the same replacement for events ("24.0" with "30.0")
    2. Save the file and import it

Keywords

Blue works live, import, export, BWL, diagram, BPMN, process manager, sap signavio, signavio , KBA , BPI-SIG-CA-INT-DIA , Diagram Import / Export for SAP Signavio , Problem

Product

SAP Signavio Process Manager all versions