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Your process model contains shapes that represent activities, which process transactions. These transactions flow between activities on a path through the process.
Every transaction entering an activity is an input to that activity. Transactions enter an activity by:
Incoming connector lines (as long as the line is not an ‘Auxiliary Line’ or does not have the ‘No Transaction Flow’ option set in the Line Library).
Start point (either a generator is assigned to a start point name, or a parent process sends transactions to an activity with the start point name in the child process)
Transactions generated at the current shape
In the Properties dialog box - Inputs page, you can define an activity as a starting point where transactions can be introduced into a process. You can also define how transactions are collected after entering an activity and the Queuing Rules that set the order in which transactions are collected (see Queuing Rules and Queuing Methods).
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