Can You Build a Christmas Tree in a Frends Process?

Someone asked if our Christmas process was real. It is. Here’s how to build a working Christmas tree inside a Frends Process — emoji snowflakes, ASCII art, and all. That Process was published at the end of the year 2025 in newsletters and on LinkedIn. The Process is real. With one small caveat. The menu on the left is from the Process Editor, whereas the image clearly shows a Process Instance, which doesn’t have that menu. Trick 1: ASCII Art & Emojis Ok, but how can one create such a Process? Let’s start with the easiest elements in the image. Clearly, one shape of ASCII Art Santa is its description. The snowflakes are emojis ❄. They appear to float freely, as in Frends, for certain shapes, you can move the name away from the shape itself. You can have spaces and newlines in names. Also, you can add a name to an element by double-clicking it. This allows you to play with snowflakes more easily. Clearly, those two snowflakes are names of other shapes! The same trick is used in a Chr