Partition
A swimlane band with its name at the top. Lanes appear in the order they are first named.
diagram activity "Swimlanes"
start
lane "Customer" {
action "Place order"
}
lane "Warehouse" {
action "Pick items"
}
stop
A lane inside a lane is not a sub-partition: it simply moves the steps inside it to that lane. In a diagram with lanes,
actions, signals and objects must be inside a lane.
Syntax
lane "name" { ... }
Specification
UML 2.5.1, 15.6.4 (p. 408). A node may belong to several partitions, which is how a fork bar spans lanes.