A tool to visualize Domain Stories in your browser.
You can try the modeler online at https://www.wps.de/modeler. To run the modeler locally, download the latest release from GitHub. Extract the zip file and open index.html in your browser.
Important: Starting with v1.0.0, the modeler requires that your browser allows third party cookies (How to turn on third party cookies in Firefox and Chrome). We rely on storing your moddeler's configuration in your browser. That enabled us to develop a cool feature that allows you to choose which icons you want to use for modeling (see below).
This is a short guide on how to use the Domain Story Modeler. We recommend to switch your browser to full screen mode (in most browsers: press F11 key) to increase the available modeling space.
Shows the icons you can choose to record your Domain Story (actors and work objects), a rectangular shape to group icons into logical units, and two useful modeling tools:
- The lasso tool lets you select several icons at once to move them easily.
- the space tool creates or removes space. Click and drag the crosshair to the right or down to create space, or drag to the left or to the top to remove space.
Click on the headline to change the name of the Domain Story and describe it. The description can contain information about assumptions (e.g. that the domain story describes a "happy path" scenario) and variations (e.g. optional activities). Use ctrl+enter or alt+enter to add line breaks to the description.
If you drop an icon from the palette into the canvas you will see a context menu. To show the connection between two icons use the arrow. Also you can choose the next icon you want to connect to. If you choose one, it will automatically be connected. Delete the chosen icon by clicking on delete. You can click on the wrench to change the icon. By using the annotation icon, you can add comments for further information.
Double click on an actor's or work object's icon to edit the name. To rename multiple work objects, click the dictionary button 
.
Activities are depicted as arrows. Double click on an arrow to edit the activity's name. If you model an activity between an actor (person, people and system) and a workobject (folder, call, email, conversation, information) it will be numbered automatically. By double clicking on the arrow or the number you can manually change the number. All other numbers are adjusted automatically.
If you want to save your Domain Story, download it as a .dst file by clicking the export button 
or pressing ctrl+s on your keyboard. To continue working on a Domain Story, import a .dst file using the upload button 
.
You can also export your diagram as a .svg or .png file by clicking on the image button 
and selecting your preferred format.
The replay feature helps you to re-tell a Domain Story sentence by sentence. When you start a replay with the play button 
, all activities except the first one disappear. Clicking the forward button 
shows the next activity and clicking the previous button 
shows the previous one. Editing is disabled in replay mode, but you can zoom (mouse wheel up and down) and scroll (ctrl + mouse wheel up and down). The stop the replay, click the stop button 
.
Click on 
to display all available keyboard shortcuts.
If you use the modeler in an organization, we recommend that you and your colleagues agree on an icon set that fits to your domain. You can configure the palette accordingly and share that configuration:
Click on 
to open the icon configuration. Configure your icon set by naming it and selecting which icons should be used as actors or as work objects. You can export yor configuration as .domain file. To switch between configurations, import a different .domain file.
If you import a Domain Story from a .dst file, your icon configuration will change automatically to the one with which the Domain Story was created - even if you do not have the corresponding .domain file.
Beta feature: If you want to use icons that are not in the predefined set that comes with the modeler, you can upload your own icons. Different image formats are allowed, but you will achieve best results with SVG because it is scalable (like the icons that come with the modeler). Also, we recommend to use square images because they look better in the pallete and the context pad. If you want a consistent look, consider using the same icon set that we use for the predefined icons: https://material.io/resources/icons/?style=outline
The examples' directory contains .dst files that you can import to the modeler. They give you an idea how a Domain Story might look like. Use the replay feature to read the story sentence by sentence. The examples' directory also contains a SVG file for every Domain Story. The images were created using the modeler.
Download the source code or clone the repository. Please note that we use the main branch for development. The main branch contains the latest features and bug fixes, but they might be undocumented and tested less thoroughly than a release. To be on the safe side, stick with the latest release branch.
Fetch dependencies:
npm install
Build and open the modeler in your browser:
npm run dev
Create distributable bundle:
npm run all
The Domain Story Modeler is licensed under GPLv3.0. The Modeler uses bpmn-js which is licensed under the bpmn.io license.
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