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Activity Resource Requirements

A resource is labor, equipment, or some other asset used to process a transaction at an activity in a process or BPMN diagram.

At each activity you specify the number, or count, of each resource that is required. For each transaction that enters the activity and acquires resources (for this one activity or multiple activities), these resources are busy and cannot be used by another transaction for as long as the transaction uses them. The count can be an expression.

You must define and allocate a resource before an activity can acquire it for work.

Related Topics

Add, Rename, and Delete Resources and Resource Types

Resource Views

Specify Resource Attributes

Resource Behavior and Schedules

Merge Models

Allocate Resources

Acquire Activity Resources

Acquire and Release a Resource

Specify a Resource Acquisition Constraint

Create, Modify, or Delete an Acquisition Group

Resource Wait Option

See Also

Process Behavior Reference

Resources page: Identify resources required to do work