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Icon Descriptions and Purposes

There are many icons in ProcessPro with different titles and purposes. Below are some of the icons and a brief description of their purpose

Written by Hylet Pistorius

Right-hand Diagram Content Menu Found in Processes, Value Streams, Managed Documents

Icon

Icon Description

Explanation

Pin

Three staggered horizontal lines

Click this icon to pin the right-hand side diagram content menu

Expand

Two left arrows in a green circle

Click this icon to expand the right-hand side diagram content menu across the page for easier editing

Collapse

Two right arrows in a green circle

Click this icon to collapse the right-hand side diagram content menu back to its original size

Process Steps

Two horizontal parallel strips connected by a wire

Select this icon to see the process steps in the right-hand diagram content menu

Quality Score

Graduation hat

See and calculate your process quality score. See recommendations on how to improve the score

Triggers, inputs and outputs

Two arrows, one pointing up and one pointing down. In a white block

Displays the list of triggers, inputs and outputs for the process

Associations

Three circles connected by a circular loop

Displays documents associated with the process or value stream

Actions

Single lightning bolt with a capital 'A'

Contains all the actions that can be performed. Including publish, duplicate, create a future state, take offline, display embedded view, enable time and cost, etc.

Feedback

Speech bubble

Give feedback on a process, value stream or managed document

Stakeholders

Silhouette of three people

View stakeholders associated

Tags

Tag

View all tags associated with process activities

History

Clock with arrow pointing anticlockwise

View all historic versions of the process

Import

Sheet with corner folded and arrow pointing into it from the left

Displays import panel. Generate a process or import a process with AI , from Excel, Visio, PDF, Word

Share

Universal share icon

View all created shared links/quick views

Workflows

Arrow right in a cirle

View all created workflows

Time and Cost

Alarm clock with dollar sign

View time and cost analysis page

Add

Grey plus in a light grey circle

This icon allows users to add more steps into the process or value stream, in the form of activities, decisions and process links

Icons Found on the Process Map

Icon

Icon Description

Explanation

Zoom

Minus left, plus right connected by a line

Click on the minus (-) sign to zoom the map out and on the plus (+) sign to zoom the map in

Lock map

Padlock

Unlock the padlock to move items in the map to custom positions: nodes, alternate path/ loopback lines and swimlanes

Add

Green buttons

Select any one of these icons to add an activity, decision, process link or swimlane to the map. Use the arrow at the top to expand/ collapse titles

SVG download

Downward arrow on a line

Select this button to download a high-resolution svg file of the map

Activity

Rectangular node

Activity node

Decision

Diamond node

Decision node

Event

Circular node with varying icons/boundary lines we set on selection

Event node

Process link

Rectangular node with a strip on each side

Process link node

Process Map Overview Box

On

Camera

Process Map Overview Box

Off

Camera crossed out

Add a Node

Plus sign in green cirlce

Add an activity/ decision/ process link/ event. Green plus sign appears between connectors in the happy path.

Add node in a branch

Plus sign in orange circle

Add an activity/ decision/ process link/ event. The orange plus sign appears when a branch can be added.

Expand a Linked Process

Plus sign in blue circle

Click here to expand a linked process on the map

Decision Diamonds

Yes path

Y in a green diamond

Yes path

Decision Diamonds

N in a red diamond

No path

General

Help Button

Toggle

Off

On

Search

User Profile

Logout

Pin

Dashboard

Process

Value Stream

Managed Document

Attachment

Directory

Organisation Chart

Global Process Library

Tasks

Notifications

Reports

Settings

Add

Found in the diagram content menu or the add task pop up. This icon allows users to add more steps into the process or value stream, add more tasks into the task pop up or add inputs, triggers and outputs.

Assign or reassign feedback

Found on the right side of a feedback record. Use this icon to assign or reassign a feedback task.

Automated activity

Found on the activity nodes in process or value stream maps. This indicates that the activity is an automated activity.

Bulk actions

Found when the checkbox is selected in the diagram content menu. This allows you to make changes to all those that are selected.

Checkbox unselected

Found beside nodes when the toggle at the top of the diagram content menu has the select activated. This allows you to select multiple nodes to perform bulk actions.

Checkbox selected

Found beside nodes when the toggle at the top of the diagram content menu has the select activated. This shows which nodes have been selected to perform bulk actions on.

Close

Found in all pop up screens. This allows you to close the pop up. You can also use esc on your keyboard. This icon also allows you to remove filters.

Dashboard

Found in the left navigation menu. Click on this icon to be directed to your dashboard.

Database activity

Found on the activity nodes in process or value stream maps. This indicates that the activity is a database activity.

Delete

Found anywhere an item can be deleted from the site.

Decision pathway - no

Found in the diagram content menu. This icon shows the no pathway of a decision.

Decision pathway - yes

Found in the diagram content menu. This icon shows the yes pathway of a decision.

Diagram content

Found within a process or value stream, on the right hand side. This icon directs you to the diagram content within the process or value stream.

Directory

Found in the left navigation menu. Click on this icon to be directed to your directory.

Attachments

Found in the left navigation menu. Click on this icon to be directed to your attachment summary screen.

This icon also shows attachments in the diagram content menu.

Drag and drop

Found in the diagram content menu. Can be used to drag and drop nodes into a new position.

Edit

Found in items to edit their information.

Controls

Found in the diagram content menu. Use this icon to change the details of an activity, decision, process link, inputs, triggers or outputs, tasks, notes and attachments.

Expand/Collapse side menus

Found on both the left navigation menu and the right diagram content menu. Click on the staggered bars to expand/collapse the menus.

Export

Found at the top of a process. This allows you to export to several different applications.

Favourite selected

Found in most data tables. This icon allows you to favourite a process, value stream, managed document or attachment as a favourite to make it more accessible in your dashboard.

Favourite unselected

Found in the most data tables. This icon allows you to unselect a process, value stream, managed document or attachment from your favourites.

Feedback

Found in the diagram content menu. Change to the feedback tab to add, reply or reassign feedback.

Filter

Found at the top in the filter bar of most pages. This icon allows you to activate the filter/search bar to help refine searches for particular items.

Future state

Found in the diagram content menu within a published process that has had a future state created.

Gateway

Found in the diagram content menu. This icon shows you that a node is part of a gateway.

Gateway activity selected

Found in the set gateway options pop up. This appears when a node has been selected to be added into the gateway.

Gateway activity unselected

Found in the set gateway options pop up.

Help

Found in most pop ups. Opens a help article for page specific help.

History

Found in the diagram content menu. This icon directs you to the history records.

Import a word document

Found in the diagram content menu. This icon opens the import panel for you to load certain documents or to generate information with AI.

Inputs

Found in the diagram content menu. This icon indicates that the activity has inputs attached to it.

Item selected

Found on all pages with data tables. If you select this box you can perform bulk actions to all the items you have selected.

Item unselected

Found on all pages with data tables. This is the default display of this icon. Click the box to select multiple items for bulk changes.

Logout

Found by clicking on your profile in the top right. This icon will log you out of ProcessPro and you will need to log in again.

Notifications

Found in the left navigation menu. This will direct you to all the notifications you have received.

Gear

Found in the diagram content menu, beside an activity title. This allows you to update an activity, set alternate path options, set gateway options and delete an activity.

Organisational Chart

Found in the left navigation menu. This will direct you to the organisational chart.

Outputs

Found in the diagram content menu. This icon shows that there are outputs attached to the activity.

Pin objectives

Found to the right of the objectives description. Pin them to the diagram content menu in a process or value stream to keep them accessible at all times.

Processes

Found in the left navigation menu. This will direct you to the processes summary screen.

Process library

Found in the left navigation menu and directs to the library page.

Reply to feedback

Found on the right side of a feedback record. Click on this icon to reply to a feedback record.

Reports

Found in the left navigation menu for administrators or those with permission.

Settings

Found in the left navigation menu for administrators only.

Share

Found above the title. Generate a quickview link to share a process, value stream or managed document with internal or external users.

Sort

Found in all pages with data tables. Use this icon to sort data in the tables.

Sort high to low

Found in all pages with data tables. This icon displays data from highest to lowest (Z-A, newest - oldest date).

Sort low to high

Found in all pages with data tables. This icon displays data from lowest to highest (A-Z, oldest - newest date).

Stakeholders

This can be found in the diagram content menu. This icon will change the menu to display all the stakeholder that have been assigned.

Static activity

Found on the activity nodes in process or value stream maps. This indicates that the activity is a static activity. This is the default type if none is selected.

Submit feedback

Found at the bottom right side of the feedback text box. Click on this icon to submit feedback.

Tags

Found in the list of menus in the diagram content menu. This icon shows you all the tags that you have within your current process and what activities they are linked to.

Tasks

Found in the left navigation menu. This will direct you to all your tasks.

Time and cost analysis

Found in the diagram content menu. Change the tab to view the time and cost analysis that has been created and calculated for the process.

Triggers

Found in the diagram content menu. This icon indicates than an activity has a trigger attached to it.

Toggle off

These toggles allow you to change the way the summary screens display your items.

Toggle on

These toggles allow you to change the way the summary screens display your items.

Unpin and objectives

Found to the right of the objectives. Click on this icon to allow the objectives to scroll with the action steps on a process or value stream page.

Value streams

Found in the left navigation menu. This will direct you to the value stream summary screen.

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