Scheduling Weight and Balance Assessment

To carry out, monitor and follow up a project in a systematic manner, you can launch an automatic KPI computation weekly and get reports from these computations.

The Business Insight Scheduler serves as an important compass for design decisions. You can navigate in the schedules' sequence and adjust the planning of weight computation by editing, comparing or creating new schedules.

In the Product Performance Assessment app, from the Data Intelligence section of the action bar, click Business Insight Planner.

The web page of the Business Insight Planner appears. It is made of tabs detailed in the sections below. Each tab focusses on managing the schedules, with an easy access to edit them.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Compare two Items

Access the Short-term Schedules

The first tab in the app provides information about the schedule you are currently in. It is dedicated to the visualization and edition of the schedule in a time navigation pane.

It enables you to see the results and progression of the KPI computation. You can navigate between these stages thanks to backward and forward buttons.

  1. To visualize the details about the actual schedule, click Short-term schedules .
    The available information is:
    • The schedule name, date, and time
    • This symbol appears when the schedule is recurrent.
    • The context with the root name. If the context description contains more than two rows, you can click a hyperlink for more details and you can see or edit the filters to change context.
    • The cockpit name
    • The status of the schedule: The different colors indicate the status of the task (waiting, succeeded , failed , broken). If the computation failed, a hyperlink is provided to give you an explanation in a text file.
      Notes: When a schedule is completed,
      • you can download a .xml report by clicking . There is a column for each KPI, and a row for each specification (Spec1, Spec2, ...). The rows are split into four categories: objective, value (or values in case of multi-dimensional KPIs), tolerance, and confidence.
      • the snapshot of each computation is stored in database and can be used for comparison. Thus, the weight history is updated for the Business Value Assessment in Weight and Balance. For more information about the timeline chart's activation and content, Display the Timeline Chart.
    • The controls or to move backward or forward through the schedule views
    • And at the bottom of the page, a timeline provides a quick visual check of the previous computation and the next one to anticipate it in your time schedule. Three selectable views or schedules (past, present and future) are displayed with a colored status, with their name above the colored icon, and with their date and time below.

      When selected, the view opens focused on the corresponding schedule.

  2. To edit the schedule, click .
  3. To remove the schedule, click .
  4. To start the computation immediately, click Force Launch .

Access the Schedules History

The lifecycle history allows you to compass your schedules. It has the advantage of showing the computation phases of the project.

  1. To access the specifications of the past schedules, click Scheduling History (icon).
    The column view offers the following information:
    • Consolidation: ordered list of the past schedules
    • Schedule: date and time
    • Status: succeeded, broken or failed
    • Actions: download possibility of an xml file by clicking to get a report.
  2. To check if the index is updated, click and select Index.
  3. To check the server status, click .
  4. At any time, you can go back to the Short-term schedules tab by selecting .

Access the Future Schedules

This tab describes the running schedules or the targeted ones helping you to precise and consolidate the knowledge of your planning. You can stop or start a computation.

  1. To observe the specifications of the schedules to come, click Future Schedules .
    The page displays a table containing the following columns:
    • Consolidation: ordered list of the schedules' name
    • Schedule: date and time
    • Status: running or waiting
    • Actions: you can easily intervene on the schedules by clicking stop , start , delete , or edit .
  2. To check if the index is updated, click and select Index.
  3. To check the server status, click .

Create a new Schedule

You can follow the instructions given by the wizard to add a new schedule. You can create repetitive weight computations on a regular basis.

  1. To start the wizard, click Future Schedules . Four steps guide you through the workflow, inviting you to define parameter values.
    1. Define Name: Enter the name of the consolidation.
    2. Choose Cockpit: Select a cockpit from the list.
    3. Select Context and Filters: Select one or multiple items to compute, in the tree. You can also modify the context and add filters by clicking . For more information, see Using a Zoning Filter.
    4. Schedule: Define the start time in a calendar. If you want to set up a recurring computation, select the Recurring option. You can edit the recurrence pattern when it already exists. Choose the options for the recurrence pattern you want, and click .
  2. Click Schedule.
    The schedule is now known by the system.
  3. To check if the index is updated, click and select Index.
  4. To check the server status, click .

The new schedule has been created, and computation will be automatically performed for the selected objects at a specific moment in time and recurrence.