Start Event
Understand BPMN Start Events, their types, and how they initiate business processes in your models.
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What Events Are
Events are triggers that initiate, modify, or complete a process. They are represented by circles containing symbols that indicate the event type. You can see each type on the ProcessMind canvas — start a free trial to draw them in your own model.
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- A start event is shown as a circle with a thin border.
- An end event is shown as a circle with a thick border.
- An intermediate event is shown as a circle with a double-line border.
For more information on specific event types, see:
All Events with Their Corresponding Symbols
| Start | Intermediate | End | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Normal | Event Sub process | Event Sub process non-interrupt | Catch | Boundary | Boundary non-interrupt | Throw | |
| None | | |||||||
| Message | | | | | | | | |
| Timer | | | | | | | ||
| Conditional | | | | | | | ||
| Link | | | | |||||
| Signal | | | | | | | | |
| Error | | | | |||||
| Escalation | | | | | | | ||
| Termination | | |||||||
| Compensation | | | | | ||||
| Cancel | | | ||||||
| Multiple | | | | | | | | |
| Multiple Parallel | | | | | | | ||
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