- Release notes
- Before you begin
- Getting started
- Integrations
- Working with process apps
- Working with dashboards and charts
- Working with process graphs
- Working with Discover process models and Import BPMN models
- Showing or hiding the menu
- Context information
- Export
- Filters
- Sending automation ideas to UiPath® Automation Hub
- Tags
- Due dates
- Compare
- Conformance checking
- Root cause analysis
- Simulating automation potential
- Starting a Task Mining project from Process Mining
- Triggering an automation from a process app
- Viewing Process data
- Creating apps
- Loading data
- Customizing process apps
- Publishing process apps
- App templates
- Additional resources
Working with process graphs
A process graph is a visual representation of the order in which events took place based on the data.
TRACY is a technique that defines the layout of process graphs. TRACY lets your process graph look like how you would draw a process yourself. When drawing a process, you normally begin with the start activity and finish with the end activity of the process. In between, you try to position all other activities in their executed order. TRACY takes the overall flow of your process into account and displays this as the main flow in your process graph. With TRACY all the activities of your process are positioned and ordered in a way that makes sense. This helps you to more easily understand your processes When changing data, TRACY minimizes changes to the process graph. When you use process filters to display happy paths or to filter out data, TRACY keeps the layout of the process graph as stable as possible. When you are analyzing a process, the process graph now always looks about the same, no matter which dashboard you are using, or which filters you have applied. This make analyzing your process easier.
TRACY smoothly animates the transitions between filter states. This helps you to understand what happens when you are filtering.
The process graph consists of the activities of your workflow and edges which represent the transitions in between the activities. See the illustration below for an example.
The activities vary in color. Also, there is a difference in the thickness of several edges. In the process graph, both these colors and the thickness of the edges, indicate the number of cases going through the activities/edges.
Also, the number of cases going through this process is shown on the edges.
The legend at the top left shows the metric used in the process graph. Beneath the legend the minimum and maximum numbers are displayed. The legend colors correspond to the colors of the Activities and Edges (transitions) in the process graph.
The order of the events in the process graph is defined by the following fields (in this order):
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Event_end (the end timestamp),
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Activity_order (if defined),
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Activity,
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Event_ID.
By default, events are ordered by Event_end.
Activity_order
. If Activity_order
is set, and the ties cannot be solved by Event_end
, the events will be ordered according to the specified Activity_order
field. If Activity_order
is set only on a subset of acitivities that are in the tie, the activities that don’t have Activity_order
set take precedence. See also Designing an event log.
The start and end activities are not actual activities in the process. In a process graph, these activities indicate the start and end of the process graph. A start activity is identified by the icon and an end activity is identified by the icon.
The Variants slider enables you to reduce the complexity of the process graph, which will increase the readability of the graph. By default, the detail of the process graph is automatically determined. You can use the Variants slider to change the number of activities and/or edges shown.
If the Variants slider is set to ... |
Then ... |
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Default |
the most optimal readability detail for the process graph will be detected automatically. |
Maximum |
every possible path in the process is shown in the process graph. |
Minimum |
only the most important path in the process is shown in the process graph from start to end, where all other paths are hidden. |
Any other position |
the most important paths of the process are displayed according to the selected position. |
If you have changed the default setting of the Variants slider you can select Reset to default to set the detail of the process graph back to the optimal setting.
The total number of variants, the number of variants and the percentage of cases selected using the Variants slider are displayed below the Variants slider.
You can use the zoom in/zoom out buttons at the bottom to change the magnification of the process graph. Below is a description of the buttons.
Button |
Click to ... |
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|
Zoom in |
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Zoom out |
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Reset to the default view |
You can select the node and edge metrics to be displayed using the process graph utility bar.
Step |
Action |
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1 |
Select the activity metric icon from the process graph utility bar. |
2 |
Select a different metric from the list of available metrics. |
The selected metric is displayed when you hover over the activity metric icon in the process graph utility bar.
Step |
Action |
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1 |
Select the edge metric icon from the process graph utility bar. |
2 |
Select a different metric from the list of available metrics. |
The selected metric is displayed when you hover over the edge metric icon in the process graph utility bar.
Select the legend icon from the process graph utility bar to show or hide the process graph legend.
You can right-click on an activity or edge to open the context menu.
Element |
Description |
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Displays the available options for creating a filter. | |
Displays available options for exporting the process graph. See Export. | |
Displays the process graph in full-screen mode. | |
Displays the Send to Automation Hub form, where you can enter the details for an idea for automation. See Sending automation ideas to UiPath Automation Hub. | |
Enables you to start a Task Mining project from Process Mining. See Starting a Task Mining project from Process Mining | |
Enables you to trigger an automation from Process Mining. See Triggering an automation from a process app |
With the Start animation button on a process graph you can start a visual animation to indicate how the cases are going through the process. This enables you to understand how the cases are flowing through the graph at a glance and spot how cases deviate from the happy path. For example, you can see where potential bottlenecks might happen, where the cases are spending the majority of time, and which cases require rework.
The Start animation button is a toggle button. Once you have started the animation, the button is labeled as Pause animation.
When you paused the animation, you can select an animation ball to analyze the related case and on the lowest level by going to the Case details dashboard.
With the Restart animation button you can restart the animation at any time when the animation is running, and after the animation has finished running.
You can identify inefficiencies, such as low automations, directly from the process graph. This will help to to detect prossible issues in your process from the process graph.
Select the Process inefficiencies icon to open the Process inefficiencies panel displaying any process inefficiencies identified for your process.
Any filter aplied to the process graph is taken into account when process inefficencies are identified.
You can select the applicable process efficiencies from the Filter list, if you want to check particular types of process inefficiencies.
Inefficiency |
Description |
Bottleneck | Activities that take double the average throughput time or activities that have highest throughput time.
Note:
The top 5 bottlenecks are displayed. |
Manual processing | Activities that take double the average manual processing time or activities that have highest manual processing time.
Note:
The
The top 5 Manual processing inefficiencies are displayed.
event_start field must be present in your dataset to calculate Manual processing inefficiencies.
|
Low automation |
Activities that have an automation rate less than the average automation rate. |
Rework | Activities that have multiple occurrences in a single case. |
- Introduction
- TRACY
- The process graph
- Event order
- Viewing process graph information
- Start and end activities
- Variants slider
- Zoom in/zoom out
- Viewing the process based on a different metric
- Selecting a different activity metric for the process graph
- Selecting a different edge metric for the process graph
- Showing the node metric on the activity
- Showing or hiding the process graph legend
- Using the context menu
- Process animations
- Viewing case details
- Restarting the animation
- Setting a duration for the animation
- Identifying process inefficiencies
- Viewing details on a process inefficiency