Configuring the Active Instances view

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In this exercise, you will configure the Active Instances view so that you can display the Active Customer Orders process.
You must have an Administrator user ID and password to WebSphere® Portal to configure the view.
To configure the Active Instances view, complete the following steps:
  1. In the view toolbar, click Configure.
  2. From the Business Measures Model tree, select the Orders business measures model.
  3. From the Business Measures Groups tree, select the Order Processing business measures group. The Business Measures tree displays all the business measures belonging to the Order Processing business measures group.
  4. From the Business Measures tree, select the following business measures:
    • Approved Order Value
    • Customer Name
    • Elapsed Duration
    • Labor Cost
    • Order Quantity
    • Order Value
    • Product Name
    • Working Duration
  5. Click Next to continue.
  6. To select sorting options, complete the following steps:
    1. On the Sortable column, select the following measures as sortable columns in the Active Instances view table: Approved Order Value, Elapsed Duration, and Labor Cost.
      Note: The Labor Cost measure is a non-indexed business measure. The performance of the view is not assured.
    2. On the Default Sorting order column, click Product Name to be used as the default sorting column when the Active instance view table is opened.
    3. On the Sorting Order column, select Ascending as the sorting option for Product Name measure.
  7. On the Monetary Measure column, select the check boxes of Approved Order Value, Labor Cost, and Order Value business measures, whose values are monetary type. This check box is only enabled if the business measure is a numeric one.
  8. On the Currency column, select USD as the currency unit.
  9. In the Number of rows to display field, type 3 as the number of instances that you want to display per page.
  10. Click Next. The page for setting filtering criteria is displayed. Setting these criteria is optional. No filters will be set on this configuration. Then you can:
    1. Click Next to preview the configuration.
    2. Click Finish to save the configuration.
The Active Instances view is successfully configured.

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