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Lesson 7: Prioritize elements

When you prioritize elements, you compare two alternatives according to one criterion at a time. Then, you combine the results to view a larger and more complex picture of the elements. You can base strategic decisions on those results.
You must be a workspace administrator to set up a view to be prioritized.
To prioritize the elements and then visualize the results, you must include the view that you created for the module in the Prioritize and Visualize menus.

To include the All Cars view in the Prioritize and Visualize menus:

  1. To edit the All Cars view, click Configure > View; then select All Cars.
  2. In the Prioritize field, click the Edit Prioritize icon (Edit prioritize), select Include this view in the Prioritize menu, and click the Save icon (Save icon).
  3. In the Visualize field, click the Edit Visualize icon (Edit visualize), select Include this view in the Visualize menu, and click the Save icon (Save icon).
    Note: By default, the Criteria field is set to All criteria. For this tutorial, you are not required to edit this attribute because you have added only two criteria in the criteria module. In a different scenario, you might have many criteria for many element types. In that case, you can select the required criteria by defining a view of the relevant criteria and linking the criteria attribute to the view.
The All Cars view is listed in the Prioritize and Visualize menus.

Prioritize cars

  1. Click Prioritize > All Cars. Prioritize page

    The question is based on the criteria that you use to prioritize the elements. From the list in the toolbar, make sure that No Filter is selected so that you can compare all the cars.

  2. Compare two elements, Car A and Car C, and indicate which one looks better by using the scale. If you think Car A looks better, select a radio button to the left, and vice versa.
    Note: The scale is relative, and it does not use units of measurement. If you select the radio button to the far left, you are not indicating that Car A looks twice or three times better than Car C.
  3. Continue comparing the cars in pairs. After you complete 13 comparisons, a message opens, which states that you can visualize the results.
You can now view the results of the comparison in different types of charts to analyze the data.

Lesson checkpoint

In this lesson, you learned how to set up a view for prioritization and visualization, and also to do a pairwise comparison of elements.
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