Figure: Open Configuration Section
Note
Two variants of Traffic Light view are available in the Control Center perspective.
You can access the old Traffic Light view from the All Management Views panel.
The new Traffic Light view is available from the Monitoring
panel.
Note
The Traffic Light view does not
consider Quality Assurance activity instances.
Open the Traffic Light View from the All Management Views panel of the Control Center Perspective to view the status of all instances of activities in a process definition cumulated as traffic lights/process definition.
To start the configuration of the Traffic Light View, select the Configuration option in the Stardust Portal. The Configuration View opens. For details on this view, refer to chapter Configuring Portal Settings.
Figure: Open Configuration Section
Select Traffic Light to open the Traffic Light specific configuration section.
Figure: The Traffic Light Configuration Section.
In the Select Process Definitions for configuration pane select one or more processes for configuration. All processes are available for selection, which the logged-in user has the declarative security permission Read Process Instance Data for. This permission is defined for the process definition in the modeler. Refer to section Authorization of chapter Working with Process Definitions in the Business Process Modeling Handbook for detailed information on the Read Process Instance Data permission.
Figure: Select Processes.
The selected processes appear in the Process selection box.
Figure: Select the Process to configure.
Once a process is selected, values for the Traffic Light View properties can be entered or modified.
Figure: Editing Properties.
The State Calculator and Descriptor Filter fields are optional: if no values are entered, the default values are used for the Traffic Light View.
The table with Row Data Id and Row Data Values, Row Data Id contain the descriptors valid for the selected process. In the Row Data Values entry fields you can enter the descriptor values for which activities should be displayed in the Traffic Light View.
All activities receiving a value in this table are displayed as a column in the Traffic Light View.
Select Save to apply the configuration settings. To discard your settings, choose Cancel.
The Traffic Light view supports a top-level value chain, where the activities represent complex subprocesses.
Figure: The Traffic Light View
A Java service provider interface is provided to implement specific business logic to decide which color the traffic light should display. The implementing classes need to implement the following interface:
public interface ActivityTrafficLightCalculator
{
public int getColorStateForActivity(String processDefintionId, String activityId,
int numberOfNotCompletedActivities,
int numberOfCompletedActivities);
}
Please add your implementing classes to the classpath of your Web application.
The traffic light icons indicate:
:
all instances of this activity are completed
in the planned execution timeframe.
:
if there are any instances of this activity not
completed yet or if there are any process instances that have not yet started
this activity and the planned execution timeframe is not reached yet.
:
if there are any instances of this activity not
completed yet or if there are any process instances that have not yet started
this activity and the planned execution timeframe is exceeded.
:
if no instances exist for a column representing an activity.Hereby, the traffic lights are displayed in a tabular view with one column per activity, e.g.:
Figure: Traffic Lights
The state of the instances of an activity is kept at the time the activity reaches its configured escalation time. If the situation is resolved at a later time, this is indicated by a checkmark symbol next to the traffic light:
Figure: Traffic Light History
For example if it is expected that all processes of the day finish an activity Cash by 10:00 a.m., but two process instances out of 3 are late and the traffic light changes to red at 10:00 a.m. Some time later the two missing process instances pass through the activity. The traffic light does not change to green then, but the checkmark next to the traffic light shows that it was resolved later.
A number of rows where data filter are applied against the process instances on the values is displayed. You can determine which categories are displayed in the rows in the category filter.
To choose the process to be displayed, select it in the Process drop-down list.
Figure: Select Choose Process
To filter the displayed rows by categories, choose one of the provided categories in the Choose Category drop-down list.
Figure: Category Filter
For example the rows grouped by a category called "Product" will be displayed as follows:
Figure: Dynamic Row Grouping Example
The number of completed activity instances and the total number of activity instances in the corresponding category is displayed beside the traffic light. For example 1/2 is displayed for 1 completed activity instance of 2 in total.
To display all activity instances possibly filtered by the corresponding data filter, click the corresponding traffic light.
Figure: Select to display the Activity Instances
Two tables will open displaying all descriptor values of the underlying instance and the appropriate start time:
This table includes all activity instances which have passed the selected activity. For a detailed description on the columns and functionality of the activity table, refer to chapter Working with Activity Tables.
Please note that for passed activity instances only the actions for notes and invoking process details are enabled.
Figure: Activity instances that have passed the activity.
To see details about the activity instance, click on the Activity Name entry to open the Viewing Process Details view.
This table includes all activity instances which have not passed the selected activity. For a detailed description on the columns and functionality of the activity table, refer to the chapter Activity Tables.
Figure: Activity instances that have not passed the activity.
To see details about the activity instance, click on the Activity Name entry to open the Process Details view.
Displays graphical traffic of Processes and Activities based on a benchmark, if specified. It also displays traffic of completed and aborted processes and activities.
Open the Traffic Light View from the Monitoring panel of the Control Center Perspective to view the status of all instances of activities in a process definition cumulated as a traffic light and process definition.
Figure: Traffic Light View - Monitoring
You can specify the filter for traffic light using following parameters:
Drill down by business object.
Figure: Error Message - No Identical Categories
Figure: Business Object - Drill Down
Figure: Select Business Object Instance
Business Date or Process Start Time Date from
the drop-down list. For details on the Business Date data type, please refer to section
Predefined Data
of chapter
Specifying Data
in the
Business Process Modeling Handbook.The Date filter provides a date range starting from the current date +/- the offset. For example, if Date = Business Date and offset = -1 the filter would include process instances or activity instances where Business Date = today and yesterday.
The following screenshot displays traffic light based on the drill down.
Figure: Traffic Light View - Business Object Instance Process
Click on the count displayed for the process or activity to view the details.
Figure: Business Object - Drill Down
Note that the search result is filtered to show only processes or activities with accessible Business Object instances. Accessibility for Business Object instances is based on the user's permissions including department grants. Please refer to section Visibility Restrictions of Business Object Instances depending on Department Grants of chapter Managing Business Objects and section Read and Write Access of Business Object Instances of chapter Business Objects in the Concepts handbook Read and Write Access of Business Object Instances of chapter Business Objects in the Concepts Handbook of the Stardust Documentation for details.
The Traffic Light view supports the inclusion of process instances.
Drill down by process or worklist item.
Figure: Error Message - No Identical Categories
Figure: Process/Work Item - Drill Down
Business Date or Process Start Time Date from
the drop-down list. For details on the Business Date data type, please refer to section
Predefined Data
of chapter
Specifying Data
in the
Business Process Modeling Handbook.The Date filter provides a date range starting from the current date +/- the offset. For example, if Date = Business Date and offset = -1 the filter would include PIs/AIs where Business Date = today and yesterday.
The following screenshot displays traffic light based on the drill down.
Figure: Traffic Light View - Process
Click on the count displayed for the process or activity to view the details.
Figure: Process / Activity Details
You can select configuration parameters for a traffic light and save that configuration in a Dashboard. This allows user to run the same dashboard configuration for future use.
The traffic light instances can be created either from the main traffic light view or from the saved traffic light instances. The traffic light instances can be modified and saved as new traffic light instances, as well.
To save the favorite traffic light instance configuration as a dashboard, perform the following:
Figure: Save Favorite Configuration Dashboard
Figure: Save Traffic Light as Favorite
The traffic light configuration gets saved under the My Favorite panel.
Figure: Favorite Traffic Light
Click the saved favorite traffic light to view the traffic light configuration. You can modify and delete the saved traffic light. If the traffic light instance is saved with the same name but the search filter is changed, then it is updated in the existing traffic light instance.
To modify the saved traffic light configuration:
Figure: Save icon in saved Favorite Traffic Light
Figure: Save modified Instance
A new instance of the traffic light configuration gets created.
To delete the saved traffic light instance:
Figure: Save icon in saved Favorite Traffic Light View
The traffic light instance gets deleted from the My Favorites panel and the Traffic Light view gets closed.