Map processes and collaborate on business improvement

Everything you need to know about how Elements allows you to deliver highest standard of knowledge process mapping

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Written by Tomasz Ramus, Ksawery Lisinski and Oliver Jeffcote

Process mapping - Elements view and edit modes

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Written by Tomasz Ramus. Updated over a week ago

Process mapping - Elements activity boxes and flow lines

Process Mapping; How to map; Drawing diagrams; How to draw diagrams? Process application?
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Multi-user sticky notes

Understanding how to use the multi-user sticky note functionality in diagrams
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Written by Oliver Jeffcote. Updated over a week ago

Process mapping - drill-downs and creating child diagrams

How to send activities to drill down to simplify your process
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Process mapping - creating maps

A map is a hierarchy of process diagrams
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Invite users to maps and set their access rights

Share diagram; Invite to map; Process diagram access; Grant access; Invite user; How to make someone an editor?; Adding groups to maps;
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Share diagram

Share diagrams with users; send screenshots of diagrams; Where is the share button?
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Diagram edit rights: Manage edit rights on Maps and individual diagrams

How to set which editors can edit which maps and which diagrams in the map? Edit rights on Diagram
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Request edit rights

Ask for edit rights on a diagram or a map
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Process owner and author

Change who has process ownership and who is the main author for a diagram
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Copy processes from a Public Space

View and copy process maps from Public spaces
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Adding and managing resources

Resource library and resource utilization in processes
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

RASCI

How to do RACI / RASCI charting using Elements
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Alignment, sizing and renumbering

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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Smart renumbering / automatic renumbering

How to renumber / change number of activity boxes
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Export drilldowns and copy and paste activity boxes

Copy & paste objects and make drilldown diagram a new map
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Sticky notes

How to add notes to the diagram
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

How to connect different processes to each other

Off-page connectors; line connectors; cross-map connectors; process link; flowline linking
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Colors, styles, format

Change color and style of all objects and text
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Drawing ERD diagrams with Elements

Process mapping, ERD; diagram; flow lines
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Written by Tomasz Ramus. Updated over a week ago

Themes : change the display settings for the diagrams

Theme; Display; Change colors; Change icons; Process interface; Process display;
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Images

Add images, pictures, photos to diagrams, as attachments. Image fill in activity boxes embedding inside notes. Link from image to URL
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

See map structure using map tree

Navigate around the map hierarchy using the map tree structure
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Exporting maps

JSON; Visio; Map export;
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Import map as a drilldown diagram

Build a map from a set of other maps. Import any map to be a child diagram on an activity step
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Deleting maps (soft-delete)

How to delete a map (and be able to restore it)
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Copy map

Clone maps in a Space or between Spaces
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Printing maps and diagrams

Printing, PDF, and embedding diagrams
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Swimlanes and text boxes: how to group processes

Swimlanes; Colour boxes; Color boxes; Visual analysis; Activity grouping; Process flows; Decision box grouping;
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Digital rights management for maps

How to manage users' ability to copy maps
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

Embedding content from another app into a diagram

How to embed documentation or convert diagrams from other tools
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago

TIBCO Nimbus import

How can I import my diagrams from Tibco Nimbus to Elements.cloud?
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Written by Ksawery Lisinski. Updated over a week ago