Triaster Process Map Stencil

Process maps are constructed in Visio from the basic shapes available in the Stencil.

Process Navigator is supplied with a stencil with a default set of shapes. The list below are these default shapes, though your organisation may use a similar, but customised set of shapes.

Shape	Definition
	Activities are things you do. They use and produce Deliverables.
	Used to show an Activity that is performed outside the organisation. Often used when the Activity is brief and the Output Deliverable returns immediately back to the organisation.
	Decisions are things you do. Decisions are special types of Activity where, typically, only one of the outputs is produced.
	Deliverables are things you produce or use. Internal Deliverables are produced or consumed within the organisation.
	External Deliverables are things produced or consumed outside the organisation or outside the scope of the processes that are being mapped.
	Handover Deliverables are internal deliverables produced or consumed outside the scope of the department being mapped.
	Start/End Deliverables are internal deliverables that end a process. Often used to designate an Archive.
	Page border used to display Node level information. Nodes are logically equivalent to Activities. They are used as containers for expanded views of their associated Activities.
	Background for the process maps.
	A small hyperlink button sized to fit next to an activity to which a hyperlink can be inserted and icon changed.
	A hyperlink button specifically designed to link to further information stored in an external document.
	Sends an email to a predefined address.
	Shape for providing buttons on Menu Pages.
	Transparent box into which text can be added. Often used during drafting the maps to provide information to a reviewer and then deleted before pubishing.
	Resizable and movable swimlanes. Can be horizontal or vertical.