Active Instances view

The Active Instances view shows the details of a process at run time. It displays information about running instances as they happen. Viewing the details of this runtime analysis can help you to closely monitor your business processes.

Using the Active Instances view, you can monitor values of KPIs and metrics that belong to an aggregate business-measures group. The available process instances for a selected business-measure group are displayed. You can view and monitor the values of their associated KPIs, metrics, keys, stopwatchs, and counters. You can drill down on child instances of a parent instance to view the underlying activities, for example, items in process instances, whether they are realized by activities, local subprocesses, or global subprocesses.

Active Instances view

This view requires a business measures model that contains one or more defined processes and process aggregations. Each group should contain business measures defined for processes. Optionally, you can control the instances displayed in the Active Instances view by setting a filter expression, in configure or edit mode.

You can perform administrative actions on the process instances. When the runtime engine is WebSphere® Process Server, you can perform these administrative actions:

You can establish a wire from the Alerts view targeting the Active Instances view. When you click the source of an alert, in the Alerts view, the associated process instance that triggered the alert is displayed in the Active Instances view.

You can also establish a wire from the Active Instances view targeting the Process Diagrams view. When you create this connection, the process instance diagram in the Process Diagrams view is automatically highlighted, based on the process instance you selected from the Active Instances view.

Before the process instances and the values of the selected business measures can be viewed, the dashboard administrator must configure the Active Instances view. Configuration tasks include:

The configuration saved by Administrator role can be personalized later by other roles, provided they have access to the edit mode, for example, the Privileged User role. You can edit the configuration settings, sorting order of the sortable measures, and filter expression.

When the Active Instances view is configured, you can see, in view mode, a table listing the process instances and the values of their business measures. You can sort the entire displayed list of process instances, perform administrative actions, and drill-down on instances that contain activities, local subprocesses, global subprocesses, or all of these types. The drill-down columns can be one column for activities and one or more columns for local subprocesses. The headers of the columns representing local subprocesses display their names as defined in the business measures model. These columns can exist or not in the instances table, depending on the process model. For example, if the process model Credit Request has a global subprocess named Handling, the drill down is enabled in the activity instances column labeled Subprocess. If the process model has one or more local subprocesses, Payment Handling and Risk Assessment, the process instances table includes two columns with the same names.

Related concepts
View modes
Dashboards access control
Cooperative views
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) view
Scorecards view
Alerts view
Gauges view
Reports view
Dimensions view
Organizations view
Process Diagrams view
Export Values view
Instances filtering
Related tasks
Wiring dashboard views
Configuring Active Instances view
Modifying Active Instances view visual appearance
Administering instances
Drilling down instances
Setting filter criteria
Administering dashboards and views
Related reference
Dashboards
WebSphere Portal information
Cooperative views reference
Active Instances view reference
DB2 Alphablox

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