Slicer
- Ian Bradley
The Variants panel component of the Workflow 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 Workflow 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 Workflow 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 Workflow 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 | Opens the Time in Activity visualization to allow analysis of issues associated with the selected variant |
Insights → Histogram | Opens the Issues Histogram modal to allow analysis of the duration of issues associated with the selected variant |
Issues → Detail | Opens the Issue Detail modal to display issues associated with the selected variant |
Issues → History | Opens the Issue History modal to display a graph showing the historical creation of issues associated with the selected variant |
Issues → Lifecycle | Opens the Issue Lifecycle modal to display an activity duration lifecycle of issues associated with the selected variant |
Events → Detail | Opens the Issue Detail modal to display issues associated with the selected variant |
Events - HIstogram. | Opens the Events Histogram modal to allow analysis of the duration of events associated with the selected variant |
Export | Export the grid contents to either CSV or XLS. |
Variant Graph
The Variant Graph will update with the variants selected in the Variant Selection grid. Clicking a variant in the graph will activate the ‘Variant Select Action’ option currently selected; Animate to highlight the selected variant, Lifecycle to dynamically highlight the selected variant, and Isolate to remove all variants other than the selected variants.
To turn off the selected ‘Variant Select Action’, re-click the selected Variant in the graph. The colors used for animation and lifecycle display can be set in the Settings panel
Highlight Steps
Checking the highlights options will highlight loops with the respective attributes. The colours used to highlight can be set in the Settings pane
Step Width
This allows you to select the metric that determines the width of lines between steps.