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title: Editing a Diagram
description: >-
  Change and extend a process diagram created in the Modeler as a draft and
  submit it as a new process revision.
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  tags:
    - anleitung
    - bearbeiten
    - aendern
    - erweitern
    - revision
    - diagramm
    - modeler
---
As a **Designer**, you can use the integrated **Modeler** to edit process diagrams that were created with the **Modeler**.

## Prerequisites [#prerequisites]

You are a **Designer** or **BPM Manager**. As a **Process Owner** without one of these roles, you can also open the draft, but you can only change the name and description of the process, attachments and linked architecture elements in it — not the diagram.

You have opened the process page of a process whose process diagram was created in the **Modeler**. The ⋮ **Edit Version as Draft** command is available.

## Context [#context]

You can edit a process diagram created in the **Modeler**, regardless of whether it is currently a revision or a published version. You always work in a draft: ⋮ **Edit Version as Draft** creates one, ⋮ **Revise Version** opens an existing one.

The edited process diagram can be saved as a draft of a process and submitted in the Process Space as a process version (revision).

It can also be saved as a graphic so that you can insert it into other documents.

As a BPMN file, you can transfer the diagram to another modeling tool, for example to link it there with data and software systems. Note: A diagram that you import into the Process Space as a BPMN file can no longer be edited in the **Modeler**.

The working areas of the **Modeler** are described in [Creating a Diagram](/en/processes/create-process-drafts/creating-a-diagram-with-modeler).

Until you submit the draft as a process version (revision), only its **Participants** can see it.

The draft is saved automatically on an ongoing basis; **Last saved** is shown at the top.

If another participant is currently working on the draft, you can take over the editing with **Take Over Editing**.

## How to Proceed [#how-to-proceed]

1. On the process page of a process diagram that was created in the **Modeler**, click ⋮ **Edit Version as Draft**.

   A note appears.
2. To use the current process version as a draft, click **OK**.

   The integrated **Modeler** appears.
3. To add another element, click a diagram node and use the context menu, or click a symbol in the left toolbar and drag it to a free position.

   From the context menu, the element is created with a connection; from the toolbar, without one.
4. To connect two elements, you have two options:

   - Click the first element, click the connection symbol in the context menu and drag the connection to the second element.
   - Click the connection symbol in the left toolbar and then click the two elements one after the other.

   The connection between the elements is created.
5. To rename an element, change its name under **Properties** in the **Name** input field.
6. To change the description of an element, make the change in the **Description** input field.
7. To change the type of an element, click **Change Type** in the context menu and select the type of the element.

   Individual properties of the element relating to the previous type are lost.
8. To save the diagram, click **Save Draft** in the upper toolbar.

   The draft is saved with the entered name. It appears on the **Drafts** page.
9. To save the diagram as a graphic or BPMN file, click **Save as BPMN File**, **Save as PNG Graphic File** or **Save as SVG Graphic File** in the **Export** submenu in the upper toolbar.

   The draft is saved in the default directory for downloads.
10. To submit the diagram as a process revision, click **Submit** at the top.

    The **Submit as Process Revision** dialog appears.
11. To submit the diagram as a process version (revision), click **OK**.

    The draft is submitted as a process revision. This process revision can be edited as a draft again.

    It is assigned to the process automatically by means of an ID.