Extend existing customizing with process variants

You can add the variants configuration to your already existing PPM client configuration by using the Add variants configuration wizard.

CTK automatically checks the client configuration whether the necessary configuration parts of the variant configuration are available. If no variant configuration exists for this client or the configuration is not valid (no variant dimension is defined in Dimension module, some variant attributes do not fit or exist, assignment to process tree is missing) a dialog opens and lists the configuration parts that already exist and configuration parts that will be added to enable the analysis of variants in PPM.

Procedure

  1. Start CTK.
  2. In the Client overview open the client where you want to add the new relation measures.
  3. Click the Edit button in the menu bar.
  4. Click Select configuration wizard in the menu bar.
  5. Click Add variant configuration.

    The dialog displays the result of the analysis of your client and lists the required actions to add the variant feature to your client.

  6. Click OK.

The variants configuration is added to the PPM client configuration.

Languages "de", "fr", "ja" are added automatically, if the client uses these languages, because template files for these languages exist. If you use other languages, you can define language specific names in the usual way in CTK module Attributes.

To use the variant feature in the PPM GUI the changed configuration needs to be activated at first by using the Activate configuration of 'Processes' module group program. The program is available in the Programs module of CTK. After the activation, the variants will be calculated for all process instances that are processed by runppmimport from then on. To calculate variants for previously imported process instances, use runppmimport -keyindicator new.

Detailed information on how to use runppmimport can be found in the PPM Operation Guide.