Percentage progress in "Collaboration Process modeling"

Hi gurus,
do you have same experience on "Process modeling" utilization?
I don't understand how the percentage of completion is manage (automatically, manually,... ?!?!).
Seems that I can only change manually the status (Open, in process, completed) in my own process. While in standard example I see the percentage completion but I don't understand how it is calculated.
KR

Hi AleK,
As far as I know it should be linked with the completion of the tasks that are assigned to each process step.
e.g: if you have 2 tasks and one is completed -> 50%
Rgds
Alecsandra

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Hi,
I think you are talking about Gravity. You can find the demo here:
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/elearn?rid=/library/uuid/80e7b554-fcf5-2c10-2e97-f9eebad9c723
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Hi Dilip,
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I'm also interested to know from community what are different tools used by them for process modelling?
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Regards Anand

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Hey GSinMN,
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