PPM

Uses the ARIS Process Performance Manager (PPM) query interface to retrieve data from favorites defined in PPM.

For every PPM system that can be used in MashZone NextGen, a PPM connection must be created.

The relevant PPM client server must be running. See the PPM documentation PPM Installation for details.

In PPM, you can use the pop-up menu of a favorite to copy the corresponding favorite URL. Click Use in dashboard in the pop-up menu of a favorite. See the PPM online documentation for details.

The following parameters are available.

Parameters

Description

PPM Connection

Alias of the PPM connection, that contains the PPM client connection data defined in ARIS Connect. For details, see Process Performance Manager Integration.

Refresh rate ()

Specifies the time until the data source is read in again. Default value is 12 h.

Favorite

Path of a PPM favorite. The favorite path represents the favorites tree including favorites folder and name, for example, \Favorites\Process cycle time

Extract from URL

Determines the connection data of the PPM data source automatically, for example, alias, favorite path, language and favorite type. Click Extract from URL and insert the favorite URL created in PPM.

Authentication

Specifies the credentials for authenticating the query against the PPM client server.

Single Sign-On: Enables you to log in to PPM client server using single sign-on (SSO), and your current credentials. For details on how to configure SSO, see Authentication with single sign-on solutions.

HTTP basic auth: Requires the user name and the password of a PPM user.

The returned data is filtered based on the PPM user access rights. The PPM user must have access rights for the selected favorite.

Advanced options

Specifies further connection parameters.

Favorite type specifies the favorite as Private or Shared.

Language of the favorite, for example, en for English

Request key columns separately: Extracts all key values from the list table and writes them to separate columns of the data feed.

Configure columns

Configures the columns list. You can unselect a column to exclude it from the result data. If you enter a new name for a column, this name is used in the result instead of the original column name. If you click Reset columns, the column list is reloaded from the data source and all changes in the list are undone.

Filters: Detect

Reloads the dimensions and measures information from PPM

Add filter

Adds one or more filter criteria to filter the values of the PPM query.

PPM supports filtering by multiple selection. For details on using multiple selections, see Use multiple selection in lists and tables.

For details on configuring the PPM operator for filtering, see Add filters.