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Export and Import Your BPMN File

Export and Import Your BPMN File

You can move process models from one environment to another, for example from a test to a production Jira, with the Export and Import buttons in the Flower user interface. You can also exchange models with other BPMN tools, because BPMN files use a standard XML format.

Export Your BPMN File

BPMN diagrams are typically saved as XML files with the extension .bpmn. Various BPMN modeling tools can open and edit these files. If your favorite process designer supports the BPMN format, it can most likely import Flower models.

How to export a Flower BPMN model

Flower creates a ZIP archive that contains the BPMN, the DMN, a JSON, and an SVG file.

Flower stores its own settings, such as the space and work type of an activity, as extension attributes in the BPMN file. Other tools usually ignore these attributes and keep them when they save the file.

Tools That Can Open BPMN Files

Tools that work with BPMN files include, among others:

  • Camunda Modeler: open-source, cross-platform tool to create, edit, and analyze BPMN diagrams.
  • bpmn.io: the open-source toolkit behind many BPMN editors and viewers. The Flower modeler is based on it.
  • Signavio: a cloud-based BPMN modeling tool with collaboration, simulation, and process automation.
  • Lucidchart: a web-based diagramming tool that supports BPMN and other diagram types.
  • Microsoft Visio: diagramming software with support for BPMN diagrams.
  • BPMN Modeler for Confluence: a Confluence app to model BPMN diagrams without automation support.

Whether a tool reads a file correctly depends on the BPMN elements in it and on the tool.

Import Your BPMN File

Flower imports BPMN files that you exported from Flower and files from other process designers that produce the standard BPMN format.

How to import a BPMN model

After the import, check the model:

  • Space and work type: If you import a Flower model from a different Jira instance, the values for the space and the work type may not match. Adjust them for the model, its swimlanes, and its activities.
  • Supported elements: Flower runs a subset of the BPMN elements. Elements from other tools that Flower does not support are imported but ignored during execution. See BPMN Coverage in Jira.
  • Validation: Run the validation check and the token simulation, then publish the model. See Get Started with Modelling.

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