What is an event?

in this video we are going to cover events an event represents something that occurs or may occur during the course of a process it affects the flow of the process events are represented by circles there are three types of event based on how they affect the flow a start event indicates the start of a process it is drawn as a thin circle and normally each process has just one an intermediate event represents something that may occur within a process it represents something external that can occur along the process flow an end event indicates the end

of a path in a process it is drawn as a thick circle and quite often a process may contain more than one in this example a start event triggers the process in this case the expense claim activity the end event represents the end of two parts in this process one related to the inform rejection activity and the other to the pay expense claim activity in this example an intermediate event is not present for further information about intermediate events see that what is an intermediate event video