Actors

An actor can be any person, role, organization, application, or system that interacts with a modeled process. The purpose of creating actor artifacts is to include them in Processes. After you have created actor artifacts, you can set an actor for each shape in a Process.

Actor Artifact Properties

By default, an actor artifact contains the following system properties:

Property

Description

Name

Indicates the name of the actor

Type

Indicates the type of artifact

Id

Provides a unique identifier for the actor. The Id cannot be modified

Image

Displays the chosen actor image, or a default avatar if no image is chosen

Inherits From

If the actor is inherited from another actor (that is, a parent), this property indicates the name and ID of the parent actor

Description

Provides a description of the actor

Your instance administrator can configure standard properties for each standard artifact type. Actors also have their own relationships, discussions, files, and history.