Specify the widget settings

You can specify the widget settings in the widget properties dialog.

Procedure

  1. Click the Function Flow widget on the dashboard. The relevant properties dialog is displayed.

  2. Specify your settings. See the display options list below.

  3. Click the edit mode Interactive mode icon to activate the interactive mode. In interactive mode, you can edit the diagram layout. See the display options list below.

    The Function Flow diagram is laid out automatically. But you can change the diagram layout in interactive mode manually.

  4. You can preselect the measure that is to be displayed initially in the functions in view mode.

    Select a measure from the Values shown at functions node drop-down menu and save the dashboard. If only one measure is specified in the data assignment, no selection box is available, and the corresponding values are displayed automatically.

  5. To set the Process Mining context options, click Context.

Your settings are applied.

Display Options

General Options

Description

Name

Optional widget name.

Container

Hide header: Hides the header as well as the title of the component, and resizes the content of the container. Click the icon again to display the header. The header is hidden by default.

Hide border: Hides the outline of the component container. Click the icon again to display the outline. The border is visible by default.

Container style

Selects the style type of the container. The container styles available in the drop-down menu are part of the style template selected for the current dashboard. The Default widget style is preselected.

Style

Selects the style type of the component. The component styles available in the drop-down menu are part of the style template selected for the current dashboard. The Default widget style is preselected.

Auto refresh

Specifies the automatic data retrieval for the component.

Show menu

Enables the widget menu in view mode. In view mode, you can display the widget menu by clicking the Show menu Menu icon in the widget header. In the widget menu, you can, for example, clear a selection, refresh the data displayed, or save the component widget in a CSV file.

Specific Function Flow widget options

Description

Edit widget

Activates the interactive mode. The interactive mode (edit mode) enables you to perform the following actions.

- You can resize the diagram using the mouse wheel.

- You can move the entire diagram or the individual function symbols using drag and drop. To move the complete graph, click an empty space within the widget and hold down the mouse button. You can move the graph until you release the mouse button.

You can select a connection value. You can select a value in the widget Settings menu if you have set at least one value using the Additional connection values option in the Assign data (2/2) dialog. See Assign data sources.

- You can enable the magnifier. Click Settings and select Enable magnifier.

- You can modify the relevance slider view and the relevance slider value. The slider value is not saved in the dashboard.

Symbol style

Selects the style of the symbols used in the function flow diagram. The diagram can be displayed with EPC and BPMN symbols. The default symbols are of EPC style. Depending on the selected symbol style, the diagram layout changes, including the start and end nodes.

When the symbol style is changed, the layout of the graph is automatically adjusted.

Layout

Reset initial: Restores the initial diagram layout.

Zoom

Reset: Restores the initial diagram size.

Relevance slider

Enables the relevance slider in the dashboard view and edit mode.

If the Function flow diagram contains only single functions, the Relevance slider component is disabled.

Connection labels

Displays the connection values in the diagram. The connection values defined in the data assignment can be displayed or hidden beside the connections. By default, the relevance values are displayed beside the connections. If an additional connection value is defined, it is displayed as the connection value instead. If more than one additional connection value is defined, a drop-down menu is provided in the settings menu for you to select the values that are to be displayed beside the connections. By default, the first additional connection value is displayed.

Connection weight

Displays the connection weight in the diagram. The connection weight is indicated by the connection thickness.

Multiple selection

Enables multiple selections for the Function Flow widget. In view mode, you can select multiple functions simultaneously. You can select one function after the other and the corresponding filters are added and applied to the widgets.

The option is enabled by default.

When multiple selection is enabled, the filtering of connections is disabled. Connections in the Function Flow diagram cannot be selected, and no connection filters can be set from outside the Function Flow widget.

Context options

The following options are available on the Context tab. The Context tab is available if the Process Mining context is enabled for the dashboard.

Context options

Description

Exclude widget from being filtered.

Excludes a dashboard widget from being filtered by the Process Mining context. It displays only unfiltered context data and does not respond to context filtering.

The excluded widget can still be used to filter other context widgets.

Self-filtering

Using the Self-filtering option, you can directly view the results of a filter that is applied. If a filter is set within the Function Flow diagram, this filter is also applied to the Function Flow diagram itself. (By default, the widget producing the filter is excluded from being filtered by this filter).

The option is enabled by default.

When the Self-filtering option is enabled, connections in the function flow cannot be selected. The filtering of connections is disabled.

If there is no value in the context filter or the widget is excluded from being filtered ("Exclude widget from being filtered" is checked), the Self-filtering option will be disabled.