Chapter 30. Artifacts

Any object in the BPMN diagram that is not a part of the process workflow is an artifact. Artifacts have no incoming or outgoing flow objects. The purpose of artifacts is to provide additional information needed to understand the diagram.

Data objects are visualizations of process or sub-process variables. Note that not every process or sub-process variable must be depicted as a data object in the BPMN diagram. Data Objects have separate visualization properties and variable properties.