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This flowchart elements illustration provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the relationships and processes within a flowchart. It highlights key components such as annotations, which offer additional context for specific activities, and directional arrows that indicate the sequence of steps. The diagram also addresses external events, like waiting for an operation to complete, and the concept of swim lanes for grouping related processes. Essential elements like start/end points and child processes are explained, ensuring a clear understanding of flowchart representation. This guide serves as a valuable resource for accurately interpreting and constructing flowcharts.

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Outline/Content

relationship

Annotations are used to provide additional contextual information for specific activities or events.

steps

Fork/merge

Directional arrows establish connections between processing steps or other elements. The direction of the arrow indicates the sequence of the steps.

external event

explanation

Child/Other processes

comment

diagram

determination

An external event represents the occurrence of something external to the process happening during the process. For example: waiting for an operation to complete

swim lane

grouping

This is the most basic process steps used by users.It is named with a verb phrase.

Start/End

Flowchart representation

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