Can a BPMN process begin with a start event, followed directly by a parallel gateway? This particular process can begin from a few different points, in no particular order, but all tasks must be complete in order for the process to continue. I was simply going to do as follows:

start event -> parallel gateway (three sequence flows) -> tasks in each sequence flow -> sequence flows merging to parallel gateway -> one sequence flow...

Amazingly I've never had to do this and I can't find an example to verify that it's legal (although looking at the Spec it appears to be). Could someone please help?

Thanks, vinny

Thanks for the response, Guy.

The entire process deals with preparing an Excel report.  One initial path involves requesting data from a programmer.  The programmer then prepares the information and delivers it.  Another initial path involves getting data from a Website and pasting it into a worksheet.  (I'll leave it at two processes for simplicity's sake.)  When both of these processes are complete (in no particular order) the rest of the process can proceed (the rest is doing stuff in Excel using the data collected from the previous two subprocesses).  I do need to show how the source data is derived.

Still okay to use the parallel gateway, you think?

Thanks again,

vinny