In order to display Minitab® measures in Performance Dashboard with measure indicators and goal accomplishment, they must first be imported into PPM as process instance-independent measures (PIKI) and configured for use in Performance Dashboard.
During the evaluation, Minitab® writes the created measures to an xml file containing all measure/value pairs. The XML file complies with queryapiresult.dtd. The data of the Minitab® XML file are transformed to the required PIKI import file using an xslt script. To create a relationship between the Minitab® measure values and the associated PPM data, in addition to the Minitab® measures some or all of the filter criteria used for the evaluation can be specified as additional dimensions in the PIKI cube.
When specifying the filter settings (-globalfilter, -globalfilterfavorite) to be used as dimension values for the Minitab® evaluations in PPM, note that it must be possible to use them as PIKI dimension values. This means that they must not contain time intervals or combined filters (only discrete filters).
The XSL transformation script for creating the PIKI import file is defined on a project-specific basis.
Configuration in PPM
In PPM, the Minitab® measures must be configured in such a way that they can be used in Performance Dashboard. This means that planned or threshold values must be assigned and corresponding favorites defined for a dashboard.
In Dashboard Builder, these measures can then be integrated into the process environment in the same way as other PPM measures, and they are assigned the corresponding Minitab® evaluations using Management view links.
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Detailed information on dashboard configuration is available in the Performance Dashboard User Guide.