How to redraw a business process ?

Greetings,
During a business process definition, the arrows representing the process flows are automatically drawn and hence, sometimes, they superseeds each other, etc. is there any way to redraw a business process flow such that the arrows and nodes be shown in an optimal manner ?
Kind regards,
Nicolas

Hi Nicolas
You might find the "Layout" button in the top right corner of the process helpful.
I'm a bit obsessive about the way the processes are drawn so I don't use it. Sure there is someone out there who uses this, but believe most of us manually layout the processes.
Be sure to click Save button before clicking the Layout button. Worse case is that you see what it does and then hit Cntl-Z to undo it.
Dan

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