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Element Titles

Elements can have a Title added. Adding titles to your elements will improve the readability of your process and assist with troubleshooting. If no titles are added to a diagram, the diagram will be difficult to read and understand.

A screenshot demonstrating a diagram with no titles added. The diagram includes a Signal Start Event on the left, (a symbol of a circle with a triangle inside). This then is linked via an arrow to a User Task in the middle (a rounded rectangle with the icon of a person in the upper left). This is finally linked to an End Event on the right (a circle with a thick outline). The purpose of this image to to communicate that this diagram is difficult to comprehend without labels added.

Above: An example diagram with no titles.

A screenshot demonstrating how titles are displayed on elements in a Workflow Diagram. In this example, a Signal Start Event has the title "Wait for Workflow to be trigged by Menu Button" beneath it. It connects to a Task element with the title "Create Task for Manager", which finally connects to an End Event element with the title "End Process".

Above: The same diagram, with titles added.

Large elements (such as Tasks) will display their titles within the element's symbol. Smaller elements (such as Start Events or End Events) will display their title text underneath the element symbol.

There are several methods for adding a title, which are explained below.

Adding Titles via Keyboard Shortcut​

To add a title to an element:

  1. Select an element by clicking it

  2. Press E on the keyboard

  3. Type the desired title into the element

  4. Confirm the title by:

    • Pressing Enter or Return on your keyboard, or
    • Clicking on the Canvas

Adding Titles When an Element is Placed​

After an element is placed, Workflow's UI immediately will prompt you to give the element a title.

A screenshot demonstrating the appearance of an element once it has been placed on the canvas. The element now has a black rectangle outline, rather than an orange one. Further out from the element's edge, a dotted rectangle surrounds the element, indicating that it has been selected. Inside the task element, a vertical line cursor is blinking, indicating that text can be typed here. To the right of the task element is a series of button represented by icons. These will be described in more detail later in the article.

  1. Type the desired title into the element

  2. Confirm the title by:

    • Pressing Enter or Return on your keyboard, or
    • Clicking on the Canvas

Adding Titles via the Properties Panel​

Certain element types will display information in the Properties Panel. For example, a basic task (with no icon) will not allow the user to edit the tasks properties. However, the User Task element can be configured. Selecting a User Task will allow you to edit the Title in the Properties Panel.

  1. Select an element by clicking it on the Canvas
  2. Ensure the Element tab is selected in the Properties Panel
  3. Edit the the title using the Title field
  4. Confirm the title by:
    • Pressing the Save button in the top toolbar

A screenshot demonstrating how to edit the name of of an element via the "Properties Panel". The screenshot is annotated in red to indicate that the title inside the symbol of an element can be edited via a field in the "Properties Panel".