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title: Creating a Process Map
description: >-
  As a BPM Manager, you can use the integrated Process Map Editor to design
  process maps.
search:
  tags:
    - anleitung
    - prozesslandkarte
    - erstellen
    - modeler
---
A **process map** is an SVG graphic with labelled shape elements that you later link to sublevels or processes. The draft remains invisible to others until you submit it and add it to the process hierarchy; you change an existing map via [Editing a Process Map](/en/processes/process-hierarchy/editing-a-process-map-in-modeler).

## Prerequisites [#prerequisites]

You are a **BPM Manager**.

## Context [#context]

You can easily create **process maps** with the **Process Map Editor**.

A saved process map draft remains in your drafts even after being submitted and is therefore available to you as a template for further process maps.

Your process map draft only becomes visible to others once you submit it and add it to the process hierarchy. This means you can first design it as you like and save it. Via **Change Participants**, you share the draft with other **BPM Managers**. Only one of them can edit it at a time; with **Claim Lock for Editing**, you take over the editing.

The operating areas of the editor and the steps within it are described in [Using the Process Map Editor](/en/processes/process-hierarchy/using-the-process-map-editor).

## Procedure [#procedure]

You have two ways to open the editor:

- In the main menu, select **Processes** > **Process Hierarchy** and there the level without a process map; click **Open Process Map Editor**.

  The level is preset in the draft.

  You can also get to a level via **Settings** > **Manage Process Space**, **Process Hierarchy** tab, with ⋮ **Go to process map**; there you also click **Open Process Map Editor**.
- In the sidebar, click **Create** and then **Process Map**.

  You select the level when submitting.

The **Process Map Editor** appears. Design the process map as described in [Using the Process Map Editor](/en/processes/process-hierarchy/using-the-process-map-editor) and then submit it:

1. To add the draft to the process hierarchy as a process map, click **Submit** at the top.

   The **Submit as process map** dialog appears.
2. To submit the process map, select the hierarchy element to which it is to be assigned and click **Submit**.

   The draft is submitted as a process map for the hierarchy element. This process map can be edited again as a draft.