Managing Human Activity

If you want to associate metric values to other values such as a distance (km) or a projected surface, you can create human activities and assign them to entities.

A human activity is an action done by a human being and it impacts indicators like environmental footprint.

This task shows you how to:

Assign Human Activities to Entities

You can assign a predefined human activity to an entity such as products and specify factors like the degree of freedom (DoF). The human activity is taken into account with these values during the metrics data queries.

Before you begin: Create a human activity.
  1. From the Compass, click the Business Performance Assessment app to apply a Human Activity on a entity.
  2. In the Human Activities tab , select Assign.
  3. Optional: To use an external value as a degree of freedom (DoF) on a product (absolute value or % of the value coming from the consolidation), do either of the following:
    1. Click to unlock and overload the value with an absolute value.

      As a result, a single product can have several human activities with different values of the metric as DoF.

    2. Assign which percentage of this metric value coming from the consolidation to use as DoF. For example, 70% of the metric of the product is made out of a certain material and 30% of another. The % can be over 100%.
    Notes:
    • If you lock the value again after having assigned an external DoF, you delete the external DoF and use the metric coming from consolidation.
    • At reload, if an external value has been attributed to the DoF, the value (% or absolute) is unlocked and displayed.
  4. In the Human Activity tab , select Assign.
  5. Expand the Human Activity classification to the last node of the desired category to select the Human Activity created, or search it by its name.
  6. Click Assign Human Activity to associate it to the selected item.
  7. View the previously assigned human activity by clicking in Business Value Definition command.

Administrate Human Activities

You can create human activities having formulae associated to them and impacting metrics such as environmental footprint.

  1. From the Compass, click the Business Performance Assessment app.
  2. In the Knowledge Capture section of the action bar, click the Business Activities Definition command.
  3. In the Human Activity tab , select New Human Activity.
  4. Enter a name, the target phase(s) and the appropriate ISIC category by navigating the classification.

    The ISIC (International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities) is a United Nations industry classification system.

  5. Click Add New Entry to create the formula.
    1. Select the Target KPI from the list of available metrics.
    2. Select Kind for the formula.
    3. Specify your formula in the Formula field.

      Auto-completion suggestions are provided when you start typing in the Formula box.

      The exact syntax of the patterns you want to use is displayed on the top right of the formula editor.

      If the entered formula is not valid or not in a supported format of the mathparser library, then the formula box becomes red indicating there is an error.

    4. Define the Tolerance value.
    5. Define the Confidence value.
    6. Save the changes.
  6. Click on Create Activity to create the human activity.
  7. Wait that the index runs before assigning it.

Upgrade Assigned Human Activities

If you have a Human Activity with an ecoinvent version earlier than V3.8, a message appears helping you to upgrade the activity to the latest version.

To select a Human Activity, navigate in the ISIC.


  • When you click the message New version of this activity is available. Click here to upgrade., the latest version formulas are shown by default while declaring the characteristics for the activity.
  • When you click Edit , the formulas are upgraded to the latest version of the human activity.