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How to alternate order in flowchart?

How to alternate order in flowchart?

Imagine in the following flowchart,

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"Want Fries" must be checked before checking "Want Drink". Now, I want to get an endpoint where, both of the conditions can be checked in any order. What should be the concise flowchart of it?

Update:

One possible diagram I made is the following but it looks not concise and also looks clumsy.

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Solution

  • You can use fork and join symbols to represent parallel processing. It indicates the start or end of a section of processes that can be done independently. The UML notation for fork and join is a straight line.

    See the below picture. Flowchart