To view statistic on cost and controlling, open the Costs and Controlling view in the Control Center Perspective. The average costs and the status are displayed for the selected processes, itemized in today, last week and last month. The user can add new columns, as per the required timeframe, to see and compare the results for a specified period.
Figure: The Costs and Controlling View
In the Role/Organization list select the organization or role to show according processes.
Figure: Choose the Organization or Role
In case scoped roles are available, they are
listed in the selection box as:
Role Name (department.[parent department.[..]])
Scoped Organizations are displayed as follows:
Organization Name (department.[parent department.[..]])
Default departments are marked with a ? following the organization or
role name.
Figure: Scoped Roles displayed in the Selection Box
The following entries are displayed in the Cost and Controlling table:
The average costs apply to the controlling property Actual
Cost Per Minute, set for the respective role or organization during
modeling. You can set this property in the property page of the activity.
For details on this property refer to chapter
Modeling the Organizational Structure
of the Stardust Documentation - Eclipse Modeling Guide.
Modeling the Organizational Structure of the
Eclipse Modeling Guide
and to chapter
Modeling the Organizational Structure
of the
Business Process Modeling Handbook,
respectively.
Per default, the costs are displayed in EUR, displayed with two
digits precision after the decimal point.
The Status shows the status of the process definition in terms of color. Hereby the criticality is calculated with two global thresholds operating as a percentage of the target cost per execution:
The target cost per execution is specified via the process
definition Controlling property Target Cost
Per Execution, set for the respective process definition during
modeling. For details on this property refer to chapter
Working with Process Definitions
of the Stardust Documentation - Developer Modeling Guide.
Working with Process Definitions
in the Developer Modeling Guide
and to chapter
Working with Process Definitions
of the
Business Process Modeling Handbook,
respectively.
You can specify the percentage threshold for yellow and red in
the businessControlCenter.properties file, residing in the
folder of your Control Center WAR or the
folder of your dynamic Web project accordingly. The threshold for yellow
is Carnot.InstanceCostThreshold.Yellow, the threshold for red Carnot.InstanceCostThreshold.Red
respectively. The default value is 1.0, which matches 100%.
The state symbol color will change in case at least one activity or process instance exceeds the threshold.
Using the add new column feature, you can specify custom columns and time frames.
By adding one or more column, you can compare the average cost for the specified time period.
To add a new column, click the Add Column
icon
in the toolbar. The Edit Column dialog gets displayed.
Figure: Edit Column
Note that the custom column displays with a default start date as '0 days' and duration as '1 day'. The Edit Column dialog provides the option to edit and save the changes.
You can specify the following parameters for the new column:
Figure: Select specific Date from Calendar
To edit the custom date range filter, click the Edit link displayed in the custom column header.
Figure: Edit Custom Date Range
You can modify the date range in the Edit Column dialog.
To delete the custom column, click the Delete button in the Edit Column dialog.
Figure: Delete Custom Column
If you like to select the columns to be displayed, click the Select Columns
icon.
Note that custom column selection and visibility depends on column preference set at the time of the Add Column action.
For more information, please refer the chapter Selecting and Reordering Columns in Tables.
Following example displays the custom columns with average costs comparison.
In this example, we are adding two time frames. One is for the current week and another one is from the month of July to September. So that we can compare the average cost in these periods.
For the Current Week column, specify the start date as "0" weeks. Specify Duration as "7" days.
Figure: Edit Column - Current Week
For the period, July to September, specify the start date as "2" months and duration "2" months.
Figure: Edit Column - Two Months Period
You can compare the average cost for the current week and past two months.
Figure: Compare Average Cost in Custom Columns