iGrafx FlowCharter™ Training

Duration: 1 day

iGrafx FlowCharter Workshop Summary

This workshop is designed to shorten the learning curve and ensure effective usage of iGrafx FlowCharter in organisations where documenting business processes is of increasing importance. It supplies you with the skills and knowledge to make iGrafx FlowCharter work for you and your organisation. This one-day workshop introduces process diagramming and process data entry (modeling).

The course material is divided into seven areas of discussion. Each topic incrementally builds on knowledge obtained in the previous section. During the lecture/discussion portion of each topic, students replicate the instructor's examples on their own computers. Lab exercises are used to reinforce iGrafx FlowCharter concepts.

Course Outline

Topic 1 through 2: Creating a Process Diagram
A process diagram, or flowchart, is a graphical representation of a process. Students learn to create and modify process diagrams using basic diagramming methods. This includes manipulating departments, shapes, connection lines, and text. The students add and modify case text to represent the output of decision activities in the process, as well as other methods for creating and modifying process diagrams.

Topic 3: Advanced Process Diagramming
Students learn to create and manipulate shape numbers, incorporate phase lines in their diagram, and use on and off page connectors to manage page breaks in the process diagram. Advanced diagram formatting options are reviewed, as well as redefining default settings while creating a process diagram. Templates are introduced as alternate starting points for process diagramming.

Topic 4: Data Entry Overview
Each shape on a process diagram represents an activity. The activity describes the behavior associated with the shape. Students learn to capture, enter, and display fundamental process data and metrics for each activity. Advanced techniques for shape selection are discussed.

Topic 5: Creating Hierarchy
A single iGrafx file may contain many process diagrams. You may directly link these processes to create sub processes (hierarchy), or they may remain parallel processes. Process diagrams from one file are easily merged into another iGrafx file. Activities may be linked to external files and web pages. Students learn to create, modify, and manage process diagrams and links.

Topic 6: The Tabular View
The default view of a diagram is the Normal (graphical) view. The Tabular view provides an alternate view of the diagram information. Students learn to create, edit, and use the tabular view to document a process.

Topic 7: Input & Output
Students learn the mechanisms for moving data into and out of iGrafx products including printing components, importing FlowCharter, Visio®, and other non-iGrafx files, saving to a web page, and linking and embedding information with the standard Windows (OLE) functionality. The export of flowchart data to Word and Excel is also introduced.

The contents of training courses may vary according to the location or country of delivery - please check with your iGrafx representative.