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Map processes and collaborate on business improvement

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