Issue 14446: Lane.partitionElementRef incorrectly defined (bpmn2-ftf)
Source: International Business Machines (Ms. Suzette Samoojh, ssamoojh(at)ca.ibm.com)
Nature: Revision
Severity: Significant
Summary: Consider swim lanes representing performers.


- The spec states that the Lane.partitionElementRef would reference a Performer. This won't work since Performers are owned by Activities. Hence would result in a different Lane for every Activity.
Instead the Lane.partitionElementRef should instead reference a Resource, which multiple Performers may reference.

- The XSD defines Lane.partitionElementRef as an IDREF. It should instead be a QName, to allow references to a Resource in a different Definitions file.
Resolution: (a) On spec pg 285, replace "e.g., all Lanes in a LaneSet defines the Performer element as the partition element, but all with different values" with "e.g., all Lanes in a
LaneSet reference a Resource as the partition element, but each Lane references a different Resource instance".
(b) Update the tLane type in the XSD, replacing
<xsd:attribute name="partitionElementRef" type="xsd:IDREF"/>
with
<xsd:attribute name="partitionElementRef" type="xsd:QName"/>
to allow for Resources in a different definitions file.
(c) The XSD snippet in the spec will also need to be similarly updated.
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
October 1, 2009: received issue
October 21, 2010: closed issue
Discussion: 

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Date: 01 Oct 2009 11:16:03 -0400
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Name:          Suzette Samoojh
Company:       IBM
mailFrom:      ssamoojh@ca.ibm.com
Notification:  No
Specification: BPMN 2.0
Section:       10.7
FormalNumber:  BPMN
Version:       2.0
RevisionDate:  05/22/2009
Page:          316
Title:         Lane.partitionElementRef incorrectly defined
Nature:        Revision
Severity:      Significant
test:          3qw8
B1:            Report Issue


Description:


Consider swim lanes representing performers.


- The spec states that the Lane.partitionElementRef would reference a Performer. This won't work since Performers are owned by Activities. Hence would result in a different Lane for every Activity.
Instead the Lane.partitionElementRef should instead reference a Resource, which multiple Performers may reference.

- The XSD defines Lane.partitionElementRef as an IDREF. It should instead be a QName, to allow references to a Resource in a different Definitions file.