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Customizing activities displayed in Variant Explorer

  • July 20, 2023
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I have a process which has tens of activities and 10000 variants with no major contributors. Because the process is not standardized even the top 100 variants only contribute to 23% of cases. So, I need to expand the number of variants I consider but this keeps adding more activities associated with each of the variants because of which reading the graph becomes harder.

What I would like to do is basically customize the graph in the variant explorer for e.g. by filtering or hiding or grouping activities and also hide some connections between activities based on the case count so that it is easy to read.

 

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  • pavan.abbur
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  • July 20, 2023

Basically I want to customize the activities and connections I see in the variant explorer.

J
Level 2
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What you can do is group the activities of your variant explorer and represent them as 1 activity.

 

You do this by clicking the edit button in your studio and right-clicking on your variant explorer. You then navigate to 'settings' and select 'Activity Grouping' from the top dropdown. Here you can add new groups and select the activities that fall within a group. When done correctly, it lowers your number of variants.

 

Let me know if this was successful for you!

 

- J

G
Level 12

Or you can go back to the drawing board and revisit the criteria to create the activities.

Sometimes you are adding too many activities. Or adding "activities" that, in reality, are states or even categories. Thus ending with a variant distribution where you have almost as many variants as cases.

 

Best luck!

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  • pavan.abbur
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  • July 21, 2023

Thank you very much Julius and Guillermo! Both solutions are great and realized that there are too many activities in the and also I am missing one more activity table which is part of the process explorer but not the variant explorer.

Any idea how I can add another activity table to variant explorer? Sorry I am very new to Celonis.

P
Level 3
  • pavan.abbur
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  • July 21, 2023

Got it. I was able to add another activity table as well. Thank you very much for the help!

J
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Got it. I was able to add another activity table as well. Thank you very much for the help!

Good to hear!

In the front end, you can go the settings (with right-clicking) and put the new activity table as 'custom node'. Good luck!

S
Level 8
  • sunny.thind
  • Level 8
  • July 25, 2023

Appreciate you already have a solution. However, I have also had good results utilising another language to support grouping of activities in the data model. For example, Activity_GR A = Activity_EN A,B, C, E. Then use the custom dimension on variant/process explorer, to reference grouped language. The downside is you do get a few loops in the connection. But have flexibility to view both on a single activities table.

biswajit.jena12
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Another cheat code:

If you want to see the whole process in a readble format - you can take help of conformance checker. Create a new conformance checker - use the option Mine the target process - then select all . When you launch the conformance checker you will see your entire process in BPMN format which is much more redable. You can also see the L1, L2, L3 levels in the BPMN model.

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  • pavan.abbur
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  • Level 3
  • August 7, 2023

Appreciate you already have a solution. However, I have also had good results utilising another language to support grouping of activities in the data model. For example, Activity_GR A = Activity_EN A,B, C, E. Then use the custom dimension on variant/process explorer, to reference grouped language. The downside is you do get a few loops in the connection. But have flexibility to view both on a single activities table.

Thanks Sunny!

P
Level 3
  • pavan.abbur
  • Author
  • Level 3
  • August 7, 2023

Another cheat code:

If you want to see the whole process in a readble format - you can take help of conformance checker. Create a new conformance checker - use the option Mine the target process - then select all . When you launch the conformance checker you will see your entire process in BPMN format which is much more redable. You can also see the L1, L2, L3 levels in the BPMN model.

Thanks Biswajit!

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