Is there a way to expand the sub-processes in the explorer view?

Hi @enrico.pugli12 

Yes there is a way to view macro-process and sub-process in celonis.

You can do this by using activity grouping feature in Variant explorer.

1. you can create a new group by clicking on the button 'New group'
2. Existing groups are listed below and can be edited with a click on the list entry.
3. On edit or creation of a new group you can define the name as per your choice.
4. And select which activitie or subprocess need to be grouped together.
5. The group will be shown in the Process Graph as a new Activity Node. You can collapse and expand the node.

Here you can see the play button after clicking on that you can expand the group.

Hope it helps.

Happy learning.

Img source: Celonis

Hi Rohit,

thank you for your help and your answer.

I am familiar with the activity grouping function. Unfortunately the function is manual, i.e. I have to manually create the groups, selecting the activities, as you've showed me.

In my datalog I have about 200 Macro-Activities (i.e. 200 groups), each with 2-10 Activities, so the work would be too long and impractical. I was hoping there was an automatic way to group, directly reading the datalog.

Thanks for the help anyway

Hi @enrico.pugli12 ,

I've recently implemented a similar solution. You can create a new column on your activity table during the SQL Transformation to include this activity grouping.

So you would have 2 columns related to the activities in your activity table , called "Activity" and "Macro_Activity"

Reload the data model and add a new process explorer. Go to Process Node->Custom Dimension and switch to the ACTIVITYTABLE."Macro_Activity".

If you want to make it flexible for the end-user, add a button dropdown with a variable linked to the Process Explorer.

Best,

Gabriel

Hi @gabriel.okaba11 ,

thank you for taking the time to answer me.

I had already thought about this solution and tried to implement it: the problem is that the timestamp (which is unique) is relative to the Activities, so when I go to the Macro-Activities vision I see many Reworks (Small example in the attached image). Conceptually it is correct, because I perform more activities belonging to the same Macro-Activity, but it is not what I would like to see.

I would like to see a linear flow as for the Activities taking only the timestamp of the first belonging to each Macro-activity.

Thanks anyway for the help and if you have other solutions they are appreciated.

Regards

Enrico

Hi Enrico,

This is exactly the outcome I've got. In this case, you should create another activity table (the DM accepts 2 activity tables- it is called multi-event log), with just the Macroactivities.

You can create this new Activity Table in Event Collection using SQL. For example, you can use the current one as a reference, group by macro activity and only enter the first occurrence of each macro activity.Best,

Gabriel