The Variants panel component of the Process Optimizer has 3 sections; a grid for variant selection, a graph to enable selection of single variants within the process visualizer, and options to be applied to the process visualizer for variants selected
Variant Selection Grid
The Variant Selection Grid allows for the selection of 1 or more variants to be displayed in the Process Explorer. The default number of variants selected is 10. The fields available in the Variant Selector are;
Field | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
ID | A unique indicator for Variants, order by issues desc i.e. Variant #1 has the most amount of issues | Y |
Issues | The # of issues in a variant | Y |
% Total Issues | The % of total issues that a variant represents | Y |
Avg Duration | The average duration of issues in a variant, based on the timestamp of the first activity defined and the last activity | Y |
Std Deviation | The standard deviation of the duration of issues in a variant (calendar time). This can be used to detect unstable variants i.e. variants where some issues take very little time, and others take an extended amount of time to resolve/close | Y |
Loops | Indicates if the variant contains one or more loops i.e. a step that goes back to an activity that had previously occurred | Y |
Min Duration | The minimum lifecycle duration of a task within the variant | N |
Max Duration | The maximum lifecycle duration of a task within the variant | N |
Events | The # of events in a variant | N |
% Total Events | The % of total events that a variant represents | N |
Steps | The number of steps in the variant | N |
Activities | The number of distinct activities in the variant | N |
To change the columns displayed, select the Columns tab to the right of the grid which will show all available columns:
To filter the grid, select the Filters tab to the right of the grid, select the column you wish to filter, and then enter the filter:
The following are capabilities of the variant selection grid.
Select Variants
To select variants to display in the Process Explorer, use the standard windows functionality for multi-select within the grid. You can also perform a range selection by click, drag, then release.
Note: The following capabilities are generic across all grids within the Process Optimizer
Sorting
Click the column header to sort by a column. An arrow will then appear in the column header indicating that the column is sorted as well as the sort direction
Context Menu
The context menu enables further analysis of a variant and is available by right clicking a variant row
Options include:
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Insights → Clusters | Opens the Clusters visualization to allow analysis of issues associated with the selected variant |
Insights → Influencers | Opens the Influencers visualization to allow analysis of issues associated with the selected variant |
Insights → Decompose | Opens the Decomposition Tree visualization to allow analysis of issues associated with the selected variant |
Insights → Time in Activity | |
Insights → Histogram | |
Issues → Detail | |
Issues → History | |
Issues → Lifecycle | |
Events → Detail | |
Events - HIstogram. | |
Export | Export the grid contents to either CSV or XLS. |