PolyBPMN plugin navigation
Channel: PolyBPMN
Date: 2023-02-23

This video shows how to navigate in PolyBPMN plugin from www.gdnext.com
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In this video, We will see how to work with the navigation of Poly BPMN plugin from GDnext. Let’s open this flowable BPMN File.

When file is opened, the plugin is launched automatically.Plugin recognizes the dialect. In this case, we can see here it's set to "flowable". You can also load files for other BPMN. For example open this Camunda file and here we can see Camunda. 

Let’s look at plugin. You can switch between the text editor and the BPMN modeller, or split the screen to see both. 
Navigation in the modeller is easy. You can click and hold the mouse wheel or shift key + left-click mouse to move around the canvas. 

To zoom in or zoom out, use the mouse wheel or Ctrl / command key with +/-
If you prefer using a touchpad, you can use the default gestures.

We can jump from element in diagram to element in xml file, so let’s look how it works, select element and press this xml button, and pay attention to xml file here we see cursor with position on id of this element.

Let’s look at the control buttons: here in the first row we can see zoom out and zoom  in, align the canvas without and with scaling, grid on off, and align elements on / off. Let's see how it works. I`m going to create userTask. Then try to align userTask element with start event and you can see this yellow dash line, it means that userTask will be vertically aligned by start event.