Types of Flowchart - Overview

Process flowchart sample - Human resource management process

When designing a process or an instruction in clear way, you should consider creating a flowchart. A Process Flow Diagram is the method. You can avoid wasting a lot of time understanding complex concepts as they get clear with different diagrams.

How to Simplify Flow Charting

Types of Flowcharts

A Flowchart is a graphically representation of the process, algorithm or the step-by-step solution of the problem. There are ten types of Flowcharts. Using the Flowcharts solution from the Diagrams area of ConceptDraw Solution Park you can easy and quickly design the Flowchart of any of these types.

How to Simplify Flow Charting

Pyramid Diagram and Pyramid Chart

Pyramid diagram example - Market value pyramid

Pyramid Diagram is very useful to illustrate the foundation-based relationships. ConceptDraw PRO, a business charting software, includes some build-in symbols for designer to draw all kind of the pyramid diagrams.

Business Productivity Area

Business Productivity Solutions extend ConceptDraw products with tools for making presentations, conducting meetings, preparing documents, brainstorming, or building new strategies.

Divided Bar Diagrams

The Divided Bar Diagrams Solution extends the capabilities of ConceptDraw PRO v10 with templates, samples, and a library of vector stencils for drawing high impact and professional Divided Bar Diagrams and Graphs, Bar Diagram Math, and Stacked Graph.

School and Training Plans

Planning a school and its campus layout needs to depict the premises, represent internal spaces, location of windows and direction of natural light. Detailed classroom seating chart helps you visualize location of the blackboard and desks, taking into account the specifics of the room and its lighting, with a goal to design the classroom to be comfortable for each pupil and teacher.

Types of Flowchart - Overview

The vector stencils library "Business process BPMN 1.2 (Rapid Draw)" contains 12 symbols of objects, roles swimlanes, and task icons for creating the business process diagrams using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
"BPMN models consist of simple diagrams constructed from a limited set of graphical elements. For both business users and developers, they simplify understanding business activities' flow and process. BPMN's four basic element categories are:
(1) Flow objects.
Events, activities, gateways.
(2) Connecting objects.
Sequence flow, message flow, association
(3) Swim lanes.
Pool, lane.
(4) Artifacts.
Data object, group, annotation.
These four categories enable creation of simple business process diagrams (BPDs). BPDs also permit making new types of flow object or artifact, to make the diagram more understandable. ...
Task.
A task represents a single unit of work that is not or cannot be broken down to a further level of business process detail without diagramming the steps in a procedure (which is not the purpose of BPMN)." [Business Process Model and Notation. Wikipedia]
The shapes example "Design elements - Business process BPMN 1.2 (Rapid Draw)" is included in the Business Process Diagram solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

BPMN 1.2 symbols

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Business Process Diagrams

Types of Flowchart - Overview

The vector stencils library "UML activity diagrams" contains 37 symbols for the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
"Activity diagrams are constructed from a limited number of shapes, connected with arrows. The most important shape types:
(1) rounded rectangles represent actions;
(2) diamonds represent decisions;
(3) bars represent the start (split) or end (join) of concurrent activities;
(4) a black circle represents the start (initial state) of the workflow;
(5) an encircled black circle represents the end (final state).
Arrows run from the start towards the end and represent the order in which activities happen.
Hence they can be regarded as a form of flowchart. Typical flowchart techniques lack constructs for expressing concurrency. However, the join and split symbols in activity diagrams only resolve this for simple cases; the meaning of the model is not clear when they are arbitrarily combined with decisions or loops." [Activity diagram. Wikipedia]
The example "Design elements - UML activity diagrams" is included in the Rapid UML solution from the Software Development area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

UML activity diagram symbols