Swim lanes are assigned to participants - roles or organizations. Users assigned to these roles or organizations perform the work represented by an activity instance. Being assigned one or more swim lanes, a user can perform the activities associated with those swim lanes by completing the work items in his worklist.
Hence, there is a distinction between
Consequently, in your modeling environment you use roles and organizations. Individual human performers are created and assigned to these roles in the Stardust Portal or console administration tools or via embedding application. The following sections describe the usage of participants in Business Process Modeling perspective:
You can work with following elements in the Participants node:
Each model has at least one role created by default, which is Administrator role.
An organization element represents a group of resources. For example, a department or any organizational unit. This section describes how to work with organization elements and its properties.
To create an organization, right-click Participants node in the My Process Models panel and click Create Organization.
Figure: Create Organization
To rename the organization, right-click the Organization node in the My Process Models panel and click Rename. Specify the new name for organization.
Figure: Rename Organization
Rename can be performed in the My Process Models panel and the property panel of the element.
To delete organization, right-click the Organization node in the My Process Models panel and click Delete.
Figure: Delete Organization
Click Yes in the Confirm dialog box. The organization gets deleted.
Figure: Delete Organization - Confirmation
To create a role under organization, right-click the Organization node in the My Process Models panel and click Create Role.
Figure: Organization - Create Role
The role created under organization can be set as manager. Right-click on the role
created under organization node and click Set as Manager. The
role set as manager is indicated with red color 
icon.
Figure: Role - Set as Manager
Note that at a time you can set only one role under organization as a manager. If the role is already set as a manager, then the Set as Manager option is grayed out.
To create an organization under organization, right-click the Organization node in the My Process Models panel and click Create Organization.
Figure: Organization - Create Organization
To view organization properties, click the Organization node in the My Process Models panel. The organization properties get displayed.
Figure: Organization Properties
Following properties are displayed:
The UUID and ID options are displayed only when you switch to Integrator profile.
You can create roles using two ways:
To create a role, right-click the Participants node and click Create Role.
Figure: Create Role
To rename the role, right-click on role and click Rename Role.
Figure: Rename Role
Rename can be performed in the My Process Models panel and the property panel of the element.
To delete the role, right-click on role and click Delete Role.
Figure: Delete Role
To view role properties, click on role of which you want to view the properties.
Figure: Role Properties
The UUID and ID options are displayed only when you switch to Integrator profile.
Figure: Role - Controlling
Figure: Structured Type - Comments
The conditional performer is evaluated at runtime and it determines the identity of the actual performer. Conditional performer can be created only at the root node, that is, Participant node. You cannot create it under Organization node and cannot drag and drop under Organization node. The following sections help you to work with conditional performers.
To create conditional performer, right-click Participants node and click Create Conditional Performer.
Figure: Create Conditional Performer
To create conditional performer, right-click on conditional performer in the Participants node and click Rename.
Figure: Rename Conditional Performer
Rename can be performed in the My Process Models panel and the property panel of the element.
To delete conditional performer, right-click on conditional performer in Participants node and click Delete.
Figure: Delete Conditional Performer
To view and edit the properties of conditional performer, perform the following steps:
Figure: Properties of Conditional Performer
The UUID and ID options are displayed only when you switch to Integrator profile.
If you select User as a performer type, then you can specify data for the user realm. For more information, please refer to the section User Realm User Realm of the chapter Managing Multi Partition Stardust Installations Managing Multi Partition Stardust Installations in the Stardust Documentation.
Figure: User Realm
Figure: Conditional Performer - Comments
The conditional performer cannot be set as a participant for Manual or Scan event. The validation message is displayed in following scenario:
Figure: Conditional Performer - Validation Message
The manual trigger still gets created though the error message is displayed if conditional performer is lane participant. You should change either the event type or the participant.
Figure: Conditional Performer - Validation Message
Figure: Conditional Performer - Validation Message
You can reference the participants from the provider model in the consumer model. To reference the participant, perform the following steps:
Figure: Swim Lane - Participants - Provider Model
Figure: Participant Referenced for Swim Lane
For more information, please refer to the section Dragging and Dropping of Elements of the chapter Swim Lanes Usage.