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The Function Flow diagram enables you to analyze the sequence of activities within your business processes. Using the function flow diagram, you can clearly display and evaluate the process structure and the relationships between the activities.

The Function Flow diagram requires a column for the Start function, End function, and the Relevance value respectively. Additionally, you can define further connection values in the optional list field Additional connection values. These values are available in the settings menu in the Function Flow diagram, and the value order corresponds to the order in the list field. The fields Function names and Function measure value are used to display function measures in the Function Flow diagram.

By default, you can change the Display name and the Format of the relevance and connection values. By changing the Sorting of the relevance column, you can specify how connections are assessed. If you select Ascending, high values are considered positive (for example, revenue). If you select Descending, low values are considered positive (for example, costs).

The widget allows you to use the same column for the Relevance, Additional connection, and Function measure widget elements without changing the name. If the widget elements use the same columns but different aggregation types, you must assign different names to the individual widget elements.

Option list

Field

Description

Start function

Contains the column of the start nodes. These nodes are used as a starting point for the connections, and a connection line is drawn to the end node.

This field is required and only allows unique text columns.

If the field is empty, no graph is displayed.

End function

Contains the column of the end nodes. These nodes are used as a target point for the connections, and a connection line is drawn from the start node to the end node.

This field is required and only allows unique text columns.

If the field is empty, no graph is displayed.

Relevance value

Contains the column of the relevance values. The relevance value calculates the line weight of the connections, if enabled. The sorting of the relevance can be changed via a property.

This field is required and only allows numeric columns, which are not already used as additional connection value.

The default format is 1,234 without decimals.

If the field is not filled, no graph is shown.

Additional connection values

Can be used to define additional values that can be displayed on connections. The order determines the order in the later selection box. The box can be used to switch between these values.

This field is optional and only allows numeric process columns and columns that contain relation measures.

Note that you must reassign the columns if invalid columns have already been assigned from an earlier version. Invalid columns are marked red.

Function names

Contains the column with the function names. It must be a column other than the start or end function because the start function ignores nodes without outgoing connections, and the end function ignores nodes without incoming connections, and therefore not all required function names are contained in these columns.

This field is optional and only allows columns of Text type.

It is used to map function measures to the functions.

Function measure value

Contains the columns of the function measure values. The data of the columns is displayed as a function measure within the function nodes. You can specify several function measures that can be selected in the Function Flow diagram using a selection box. However, it is only possible to display the values of one measure at the same time. If only one measure is specified, the corresponding values are automatically displayed. The column order determines the order in the selection box.

Note that you must reassign the columns if invalid columns have already been assigned from an earlier version. Invalid columns are marked red.

Optional.

Numeric columns only.

Only columns containing function measures and numeric process columns are allowed.

You can configure thresholds for each specified function measure.

If the field is used, the Function names field is required.

Single functions

If you want to display functions that have no preceding or succeeding functions or that are the only functions in the process, you must configure at least one of the measures Number of start functions or Number of end functions.

Number of start functions

Contains the column that indicates how often a particular function is considered as the start function of an EPC (no incoming edges). The column data is displayed in the diagram together with the numerical value and associated with a function box.

The default format is 1,234 without decimals.

The field is optional.

The field allows only numeric columns.

The name must be changed if the column is already used elsewhere.

If the field is used, the Function names field is required. However, the Number of end functions field is not required.

Number of end functions

Contains the column that indicates how often a particular function is considered as the end function of an EPC (no outgoing edges). The column data is displayed in the diagram together with the numerical value and associated with a function box.

The default format is 1,234 without decimals.

The field is optional.

The field allows only numeric columns.

The name must be changed if the column is already used elsewhere.

If the field is used, the Function names field is required. However, the Number of start functions field is not required.

Advanced options

Field

Description

Display name

New column name displayed in the widget, for example, used for KPI, data points or tool tips. By default, the data source column name is used.

Aggregation

Specifies how the KPI value is calculated. Available for numeric columns. Default is Average value.

The number of aggregation types provided by context-based widgets may differ from that of non-context-based widgets.

Format

Output format of the column values, for example, used for data points or tool tips. Available for columns of date and numeric type.

Round Numerically

Displays rounded measure values in the chart. Available for numeric columns. Enabled by default.

Sorting

Sorts the values of the selected element in ascending or descending order.