The Process Variants widget supports the filter and selection functionalities of dashboards. You can set filters and selections to define relations and interactions between several dashboard widgets.
The Process Variants widget can be used to set a selection or a filter in other dashboard widgets. Additionally, the entire widget can be filtered by other widgets.
You can select a single variant or multiple variants at once. Click the variants you want to select. Or click a bar in the chart and drag the mouse pointer to the last variant bar that you want to select. A rectangle displayed marks your multiple selection. You can also use the rectangle to deselect variant bars.
The interactions between widgets are handled using coordinates that contain the current selection. These coordinates are then updated by the widget on every selection change and can be used to filter other widgets. The Process Variants widget currently only exposes one coordinate with the name VariantList. This VariantList coordinate delivers all variants which are currently selected in the Process Variants widget (in a special PPM syntax because multiple selection is currently not supported.).
Please note the following advice:
The filtering of other widgets is currently limited to data sources that can interpret the special PPM syntax. Therefore, only an input parameter in the feed or dashboard can be used which directly forwards the filter to PPM.
Currently, you can only use Process Variants widgets to set the selection of other Process Variants widgets, because only Process Variants widgets can interpret the required PPM syntax.
The Process Variants widget can be filtered by other widgets without restriction. These filters are only result filters and are not forwarded to PPM unless they are configured as input parameters for the PPM operator.
The selection of the Process Variants widgets can be set by other widgets using the VariantList coordinate. Multiple selection is currently supported only by Process Variants widgets.