Posting and replying in PostMania

If you want to say something about a diagram or its content, no matter for what purpose, can create a post in PostMania. You can create a post to report status (“I have approved.”), to ask for action (“Please implement this.”), ask whatever questions (“When do you need this?”), seek for confirmation (“May I remove this from the model?”), request changes (“Fix it please”), etc.

Posting to diagram

1. Open the diagram that you want to create a post in it.
2. Click on the diagram background to make sure no shape has been selected.
3. At the bottom of the PostMania Topic Pane, click New Post.
4. You see a purple mark symbol appear on the diagram. You can add marks to different parts of the diagram for the different areas of concern. To position a mark, simply drag it to the desired position.
   To add a new mark, drag the mark symbol at the bottom right of the diagram, and release it at the desired position.
   
5. In the PostMania Topic Pane, enter the subject of post.
6. Enter the comments of the marks.
   
   You can optionally attach file reference to each of your post content. To attach file(s), click on the attachment button at the bottom of the post box.
   
7. Specify the member to notify in the To field. Selected members will receive Email notification about your post.
   
8. Click Post. Members selected to notify and members who followed the diagram will receive Email notification about your post.

Posting to shape

1. Open the diagram that contains the desired shape.
2. Select the shape.
3. At the bottom of the PostMania Topic Pane, click New Post.
4. In the PostMania Topic Pane, enter the subject of post.
5. Enter the post content.
   
6. Specify the member to notify in the To field. Selected members will receive Email notification about your post.
   
7. Click Post. Members selected to notify and members who followed the diagram will receive Email notification about your post.

Posting to references of a shape

You can also post comments to references of a shape, via the References tab of the specification window.

1. Open the specification window of shape by right clicking on the shape and selecting Open Specification… from the popup menu.
2. Open the References tab.
3. Create post in the PostManic Topic Pane on the right hand side of the specification window.
   

Posting to use case flow of events

You can also post comments to the flow of events of use case.

1. Open the flow of events editor of use case by right clicking on the use case and selecting Open Use Case Details… from the popup menu.
2. Open the Flow of Events tab.
3. Create post in the PostManic Topic Pane on the right hand side of the procedure editor. You can select the step to comment, on the left hand side of the working procedure editor.
   

Posting to working procedure of BPMN task/sub-process

You can also post comments to working procedure of BPMN task/sub-process.

1. Open the working procedure editor by right clicking on the background of business process diagram and selecting Show Procedure Editorfrom the popup menu.
2. Select the desired task/sub-process to browse its working procedure.
3. Create post in the PostManic Topic Pane on the right hand side of the procedure editor. You can select the step to comment, on the left hand side of the working procedure editor.
   

Replying a post

To reply a post:

1. Open the post to reply. You can open it from the PostMania Topic Pane or from the notification page.
   
2. Enter the content of reply.
   
3. You may specify the member to notify in the To field. Selected members will receive Email notification about your post.
4. Click Post.

Getting notified of new posts

When a viewer has created/replied a post in a diagram shared by you, you will see a notification in the status bar, like this:

The number indicates the number of unread notifications. The number will be decreased once you have checked a notification. To check a notification, click on the Message icon in the status bar to open PostMania.

The left hand side of PostMania lists the notifications you received, ordered by the receive date and time, with the latest notification appears at the top and the earliest one comes last. You can click on a notification to have an overview of that notification.

The overview is displayed on the right hand side of PostMania. It consists of a thumbnail of diagram, and a chunk of unread conversation. Note that the content of a notification consists of only the unread portion of the entire conversation. If you want to view the full conversation, click Open at the top right corner of the PostMania. By opening a post, the related diagram will be opened, with the post opened in the PostMania Topic Pane, on the right of the diagram. If the post was created around a shape, that shape will be selected.

You can also reply to a post by entering your message below the conversation and then click Post.