Help with Flowchart Logic

[Liz]

I have four people involved in a process on documents.
The first person performs 8 steps on a document and then sends it on to the
second person and returns to the second step to repeat the process, until
there are no documents remaining.
Concurrently, the second person performs 5 steps, sends the document on to
the third person and returns to her first step and repeats to process, until
there are no more documents.
The same holds for person three and four.
I am not sure how to flow chart where a person sends the document on to the
next person and returns for the next.
I will have several dozen similar processes to chart as well.
Guidance on how best to proceed will be greatly appreciated.
Liz

 

[Paul Herber]

I have four people involved in a process on documents.
The first person performs 8 steps on a document and then sends it on to the
second person and returns to the second step to repeat the process, until
there are no documents remaining.
Concurrently, the second person performs 5 steps, sends the document on to
the third person and returns to her first step and repeats to process, until
there are no more documents.
The same holds for person three and four.
I am not sure how to flow chart where a person sends the document on to the
next person and returns for the next.
I will have several dozen similar processes to chart as well.
Guidance on how best to proceed will be greatly appreciated.

Liz, have a look at either Sequence Diagrams or flowcharts within
swimlanes.

With a sequence diagram a new document starts a sequence of events:
each person (an actor) is described by a timeline along which tasks
occur (your steps), the document is then passed to the next actor as a
message.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

With swimlanes, the page is divided into several band and each band
representing a person, group or item. Place the flowchart activities in each
person's swimlane and connect the end of one person's activities with the
start of the next person's activities. If space is limited, the connection
line can go backwards between swimlanes.

John... Visio MVP

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