> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.flowx.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Adding a new node

> Once you create a new **process definition**, you can start configuring it by adding new **nodes**.

You can choose between a series of available node types below. For an overview of what each node represents, see [BPMN 2.0 basic concepts](../../platform-overview/frameworks-and-standards/business-process-industry-standards/intro-to-bpmn):

<CardGroup>
  <Card title="Start Event" href="../../building-blocks/node/start-end-node" />

  <Card title="End Event" href="../../building-blocks/node/start-end-node" />

  <Card title="Service Task" href="../../building-blocks/node/task-node" />

  <Card title="User Task" href="../../building-blocks/node/user-task-node" />

  <Card title="Parallel Gateway" href="../../building-blocks/node/parallel-gateway" />

  <Card title="Exclusive Gateway" href="../../building-blocks/node/exclusive-gateway-node" />

  <Card title="Send Message Task" href="../../building-blocks/node/message-send-received-task-node" />

  <Card title="Receive Message Task" href="../../building-blocks/node/message-send-received-task-node" />

  <Card title="Start Milestone" href="../../building-blocks/node/milestone-node" />

  <Card title="End Milestone" href="../../building-blocks/node/milestone-node" />
</CardGroup>

### Steps for creating a new node

To create a new node on an existing process:

<Steps>
  <Step>
    Open **FlowX Designer** and from the **Processes** tab select **Definitions**.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    Open your **process**.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    Click the **Edit process** button from the process definition.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    Drag and drop one **node element**.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    To connect the node that you just created:

    * Click the node, select the **arrow** command
    * Click the node that you wish to link to the newly added node
  </Step>
</Steps>

![](https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/docx.flowx.ai/flowx-designer/process_flow_adding_a_node.gif)

For each new **node**, you can set its name, and a set of values (timeout, topic name, key name) and you can also add various [actions](../../building-blocks/actions/actions) to it.

<Card title="Node" href="../../building-blocks/node" />

Now, check the next section to learn how to add an action to a node.


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