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Can any one suggest a solution for drawing process flow diagrams in BPMN 2.0 , flow charts, use case diagrams programmatically. We are planning to read the input from an excel file. If getting some ideas we can change the input template as well.

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  • See also [Wikipedia: Comparison of Business Process Modeling Notation tools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Business_Process_Modeling_Notation_tools) – xmojmr May 07 '18 at 12:26
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    I think all those tools allow the user to manually create diagrams. I need to generate the diagrams programatically – user2537735 May 07 '18 at 13:08

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You could try to use the BPMN Sketch Miner, which can generate BPMN in XML/SVG/PNG formats starting from textual descriptions of the diagram as input.

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For simplistic BPMN diagrams, which mainly consist of a large collection of sequential acticities/ tasks, with a few gateways, using Zeebe's YAML workflows might be an alternative to defining a custom Excel format.

Creating a YAML workflow can be done with a regular text editor and does not require a graphical modelling tool. It is inspired by imperative programming concepts and aims to be easily understandable by programmers. Internally, Zeebe transforms a deployed YAML file to BPMN.

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