Working With PMF Views

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Views in PMF are based on analysis of the metrics contained in PMF. They can also directly focus on any operational data used in PMF and/or related to PMF metrics.

Navigation in PMF views generally uses these components:


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Reference: Viewing a PMF Application

The PMF application uses icons in the panel of red/yellow/green stop lights, as well as gauges and charts, to show performance visually.

The following table lists and describes PMF default images and icons. These will vary depending on how you have configured the PMF indicator sets. For more information, see Look Settings.

Icon

Name

Description

red stop light

Red stop light

Measurement is below the desired threshold.

yellow stop light

Yellow stop light

Measurement is in a satisfactory range.

green stop light

Green stop light

Measurement is in a positive range.

no previous data

No previous data

No measure is present to draw an indicator.

Up arrow

Measurement is closer to the target since the last update.

Down arrow

Measurement is further from the target since the last update.

Flat arrow

There is no trending change.

Red metric icon

Metrics below are lower than the desired threshold.

Project icon

Projects are aligned with the metric.

Feedback icon

Feedback has been recorded for the metric.

Task icon

Tasks are aligned to that metric.

An administrator can change the default indicator set (the stop lights) using the PMF Settings capability on the Manage tab. For more information, see Performance Management Framework Administrator.


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Universal Drill-Down Menus

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The PMF Universal Drill system lets you drill the same way from charts, grids, and the Strategy Map, and combines all drills seamlessly.

You can right-click any data visualizer in a chart, and get a menu appropriate for that kind of data. The following image shows an example of metrics data.

If you click cells in a WebFOCUS Grid Gadget, the appropriate menu will also be displayed, as shown in the following image.

If you right-click an object in the Strategy Map, the Universal Drill will open and display the proper items for these objects, as shown in the following image.



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Navigating the Drill System

The following are tips on how to navigate the drill system:

If you click a drill inside the Universal Drill window, the menus in the drill will follow your drill path, as shown in the following image.

For example, if you click 2010/04, the drill menus shown in the following image will display Dimensional choices, which are what the Measure Detail grid expect.

If you continue to click new drills, new menus as are appropriate, in turn, replace the menus that were there.

For information on how to control the content visible from a drill, see Control Drill Menus for Measures.


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Drill-Down Options

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The drill-down options available for each hyperlinked item listed under a specific column heading are standardized. For example, all hyperlinked items in the Objective columns of PMF provide the same set of drill-down menu options. The same is true for the other columns. The following topics show the available drill-down options by column heading.



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Reference: Perspective Drill-Down Options

The following drill-down options are available from the hyperlink menus in the Perspective column throughout the views in PMF.



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Reference: Objective Drill-Down Options

The following drill-down options are available from the hyperlink menus in the Objective column throughout the views in PMF. In some views, these drill-down options are also available in the Caused By and Affects columns.



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Reference: Default Measure Drill-Down Options

The following drill-down options are available from the hyperlink menus in the Measure and Measure Series columns throughout the views in PMF.

Note: These are the default settings for drill-down options. These menus are configurable. For more information, see Control Drill Menus for Measures.



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Reference: Project Drill-Down Options

The following drill-down options are available from the hyperlink menus in the Project columns throughout the views in PMF.



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Reference: Process Drill-Down Options

The following drill-down options are available from the hyperlink menus in the Process columns throughout the views in PMF.


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