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:
- In the view toolbar, click Configure.
- From the Business Measures Model tree, select the Orders business
measures model.
- 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.
- 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
- Click Next to continue.
- To select sorting options, complete the following steps:
- 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.
- 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.
- On the Sorting Order column, select Ascending as
the sorting option for Product Name measure.
- 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.
- On the Currency column, select USD as
the currency unit.
- In the Number of rows to display field,
type 3 as the number of instances that you want to
display per page.
- 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:
- Click Next to preview the configuration.
- Click Finish to save the configuration.
The Active Instances view is successfully configured.