You can use a business process of type Supporting processes to group processes that are not part of the main process in the business solution. A supporting process is required to be able to do the main processes. Examples of supporting processes are: HRM and IT.

Add a business process of type Supporting processes is to the root node in the business process hierarchy.


Standard procedure

1. Click Business process modeling.
2. Click the Business processes tab.
3. Click Edit hierarchy.
4. Click New.
5. Fill in the fields on the New tab of the dialog.
  In the Name field, type a value.
6. In the Type field, select 'Supporting processes'.
7. In the Area field, enter or select a value.
8. You can use categories to link business processes to a specific purpose. So, in one solution, you can combine business processes for several purposes. Purposes can be, for example, training, user assistance, RSAT (Remote server administration tool), or security.
For each business process, you can define to which categories it belongs. You can use business process categories to:
- Publish a subset of business processes to a business process library in Lifecycle Services.
- Record or play task guides in another D365 FO environment. On a category, you can define a connection to another D365 FO environment.
  In the Category field, enter or select a value.
9. Click OK.

Notes

You can also cut/copy and paste a business process. To do so, select a business process and in the Hierarchy pane, click Tools, Cut or Copy. Select another business process and click Tools, Paste.

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