Analyzing the run-time path of a flow

After a flow is saved and has been executed at least once, click to review a statistical analysis of the flow actions selected during processing.

Flow Analysis The Flow Analysis report (Summary of Actions Taken) can provide insight for business process improvement. The report can help managers understand the real-world choices of your users and compare their behavior with the likelihood estimates on the flow diagram. For example, if the likelihood of a complex, lengthy, or expensive action was estimated at 2 percent, but experience shows that the action is selected 10 percent of the time, the situation merits investigation and research.

Complete the query parameters:

  • Use Work pool — Select the application name.
  • Do not group by Class — Select to report the statistics by work type. Clear to consolidate all work types in one set of statistics.

  • Limit query results to — Select Actions for this version to limit the report to work items processed only by this flow — the exact RuleSet and version. Select Actions for any version to include in the report those work items processed by other flows with the same Applies To and Flow Name key parts but correspond to other work types of the application.
  • Items entered from — Select a starting date for the report.
  • to — Select an ending date for the report.

Click Run Report. The analysis searches through the history of work items that have used this flow, for the selected time interval and work types.

This report might require several seconds to display.