How to get different descriptions for same Business Process in Rational System Architect

You would like to re-use the Business Process symbol instead of creating a new one

In order to re-use a single Business Process symbol in multiple Business Process Diagrams you will need to customize the metamodel of a Business Process diagram and corresponding Business Process definition.

You will need to use custom keyword TestProc and TestPropertyValue. and make the following changes to the metamodel:

1. Create a list containing Business Process diagrams in which Business Process symbol will be re-used
   
   
2. Use the keyword TestProc and TestPropertyValue. in the BPMN Process Definition so that for each value of a Business Process Diagram, there is a different description mentioned as shown in the sample USRPROPS snippet below
   
   
List "Business Process"
{
Value "Business Process1"
Value "Business Process2"
Value "Business Process3"
}


DIAGRAM "Business Process"
{
PROPERTY "Business Process" {LISTONLYCOMBO LIST "Business Process" LENGTH 80 }
}


Definition "BPMN Process"
{
LAYOUT {ALIGN OVER}

CHAPTER "Introduction"
PROPERTY "Description" {ZOOMABLE EDIT TEXT LENGTH 4074 LINES 15 INVISIBLE }

CHAPTER "Description (Business Process1)"
{
Testproc TestPropertyValue testproperty "Business Process" teststring { "Business Process1" }
}

PROPERTY "Description1"{ZOOMABLE EDIT TEXT LENGTH 4074 LINES 15}

CHAPTER "Description (Business Process2)"

{Testproc TestPropertyValue testproperty "Business Process" teststring { "Business Process2" } }

PROPERTY "Description2"{ZOOMABLE EDIT TEXT LENGTH 4074 LINES 15}

CHAPTER "Decsription (Business Process3)"

{Testproc TestPropertyValue testproperty "Business Process" teststring { "Business Process3" } }

PROPERTY "Description3"{ZOOMABLE EDIT TEXT LENGTH 4074 LINES 15}
}

   
   
   Note: The above solution is similar to the one present in an existing Entity Relation Diagram where based on a DBMS, different Entity Definition Properties are displayed.