Auto-layout BPMN workflow via cmd line, reproducibly

[Buddy.White75 (Buddy White)]

Question

Is there an offline tool (ideally for command line in Linux) which will automatically and reproducibly layout my BPMN diagram?

Alternatives

1. Use the yBPMN layouter from the application YEd.
2. Use the API of a local Camunda installation.
3. Try bpmn-auto-layout, a project in version 0.1 and a single release(as of Dec. 2019).
4. Employ graphviz using an algorithm by Ingo Kitzmann, Christoph König, et. Al..
5. Implement the hierachical layouting algorithm from scratch.

References

• How can I influence Graphviz/dot to make nicer control-flow graphs by removing snaking and better edge crossings?

• camunda api auto layout functionality?

• Merging two versions of bpmn (xml) files

• Graph Hierarchical Layout Algorithm

[Oswaldo_Cormier73 (Oswaldo Cormier)]

The answer is:

The alternatives listed in the Markdown format are:

1. Use the yBPMN layouter from the application YEd.
2. Use the API of a local Camunda installation.
3. Try bpmn-auto-layout, a project in version 0.1 and a single release(as of Dec. 2019).
4. Employ graphviz using an algorithm by Ingo Kitzmann, Christoph König, et. Al.
5. Implement the hierachical layouting algorithm from scratch.