You can export your BPM in BPMN format and import this into other software such as some versions of Aris or Visio, as well as many other packages. However, I've been pretty disappointed with this functionality when I've tried it. You can export as an image but this also doesn't work very well I'm afraid.
Although there's no PDF export in NWDS, the Save as Image (from the diagram or pool) to JPG format works quite well, and might give you a better or at least another option.
The BPMN2.0 XML Export is not too bad but a number of vendors only support the BPMN 2.0 shapes not the XML format.... unless you pay extra, e.g. there are cloud services for converting BPMN 2.0 XML from/to Visio for instance.
If you would like the image exported in PDF I would strongly recommend you enter your request in the Idea Place for BPM (you can get to Idea Places from the SCN main navigation banner above.
I find the save as image doesn't work very well at all. It creates a decent looking JPG (or BMP) at first glance but when the image is looked at properly and zoomed to a usable level, none of the text is clear. It appears to be "fuzzy" for want of a better word, as if the export is compressing the image and losing detail. This becomes useless if printed out.
This is causing me a headache as I have quite a complex parent process with a number of referenced child processes and my customer would love to be able to get the flow blown up on to A1 paper and on the wall for their service delivery to reference.
I've tried this feature on numerous versions of NWDS since early 7.2, up to my current 7.3 SP7 P1 and never had any success unfortunately. Whilst export to PDF would be useful as well, I think it would be good if the basic export to image was fully functional first.
As for the export to BPMN, we gave up on that option when we discovered the target import software couldn't cope (as it's a load of **** in the words of my architect colleagues!) however I have noticed if you export a BPMN and then directly re-import it back into the same NWDS instance, you get a lot of errors/warnings in the import log - I don't know how worried I should be about that?!
I agree the export to Image feature should be fixed..Additionally there should be an Export to PDF function, its a must in my opinion....There has been many client request to get the Process Diagram done a PDF format...
On the Import BPMN 2.0 functionality in NWDS, apart from the errors/warnings, you may also find that occasionally the Sequence Flow connectors are broken, This problem was there in earlier version, haven't tested it on the 7.3 SP07 though...
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