---
title: Navigating the process hierarchy
description: On the home page, processes are accessible via the process map.
search:
  tags:
    - anleitung
    - navigieren
    - prozesshierarchie
    - prozesslandkarte
    - ebene
---
The **process map** shows the process hierarchy of your Process Space across several levels: at the top, the hierarchy elements with their process groups, and on the lowest level, the individual processes. Using the search, by contrast, you can find a process regardless of the hierarchy.

## Context [#context]

To find out where a process sits in the process hierarchy, navigate through the hierarchy. You can see the process hierarchy in process maps. On the upper levels, a process map usually shows a hierarchy element with its process groups, and on the lowest level, the individual processes. The graphic elements are linked: a click takes you one level deeper.

The process map of the top level (level 0) is displayed initially on the **Home** page and on the **Process Hierarchy** page. The process map on the home page links to the process maps on the **Process Hierarchy** page.

You can recognise linked graphic elements on a process map by the mouse pointer appearing as a **link selector** and by the optional shading.

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

1. In the **main menu**, select **Home** or **Processes**. If you are responsible for processes or are a BPM Manager, select **Process Hierarchy** under **Processes**.

   The **process map** of the top level of your Process Space appears.
2. To move further down in the process hierarchy, click a linked graphic element.

   The linked **process map** or the linked process is displayed.

   For a process, the process page is opened.
3. To move up in the process hierarchy from a **process map**, click a link in the breadcrumb navigation at the top of the header area (> Process Space > ...).

   The hierarchy element is displayed.