Authors can manage off-page connectors from the Edit Map Screen.
Off-page connectors link two Deliverables of the same name across maps and can be linked to several maps at once. The number of maps the off-page connectors are linked to is shown by the number displayed in the centre of the shape.
Off-page connectors allow Authors to map processes end-to-end while enabling users to only see the relevant section of the process, for example when a new customer or order is passed from sales to the duty manager.
As standard, only Admins and Authors can manage off-page connectors.
Add Off-page Connectors
- Off-page connectors are automatically added by Process Library when a branch of one map ends with a deliverable - meaning the deliverable does not have a connector coming out of it - and another map starts with a deliverable with the same name.
- Off-page connectors are not added when a map starts or ends with a Start/End Deliverable.
Names are space sensitive so double check your spacing and punctuation.
- The number of maps the off-page connectors are linked to is shown by the number displayed in the centre of the shape.
- Once an off-page connector has been automatically added you can view the Process Maps by clicking on the off-page connector, a list of linked Process Maps will appear.
- Once a draft map has been published any off-page connectors will be added to all the relevant approved Process Maps.
- You can navigate between Process Maps by clicking on the off-page connector, a list of linked Process Maps will appear, click on the name of Process Map you want to go to.
Remove Off-page Connectors
- Off-page connectors can be removed by adding a shape - Decision or Activity - either before or after the deliverable the off-page connector is linked to, depending on where the deliverable is in the Process Map.
- Alternatively off-page connectors can be removed by changing the deliverable to a Start/End deliverable. You can do this by right-clicking on the shape and selecting Start/End Deliverable from the dropdown.
