ExecutableNode has implicit fork Gallery Tutorial TRAIL: Webel's ultimate guide to Systems Modeling Language (v1) with MagicDraw/Cameo Section 01:04: UML Behavior: Activities quick start Slide kind UML Activity Diagram
GOTCHA: Just because an InitialNode MAY have more than one outgoing ControlFlow and offers tokens on every outgoing ControlFlow does NOT mean that every outgoing edge takes a control token; InitialNode does NOT act like an implicit fork!
When an ExecutableNode completes an execution, the control token representing that execution is removed from the ExecutableNode and control tokens are offered on all outgoing ControlFlows of the ExecutableNode. That is, there is an implicit fork ... Source Unified Modeling Language 2.5.1
