The Process Explorer is the core element of Celonis 4, a powerful instrument making it possible to visualize and analyze processes.
In the following figure, you can see an exemplary display of the process explorer, showing all its different features which will be explained throughout the following sections.
The Process Explorer was designed to show processes in the most intuitive and flexible manner: As a process model!
Different activities will be displayed as nodes, transitions between activities as edges.
Nodes & Edges
Every node and edge will show the total number of cases passing through it, based on the current Selection.
This number is visually supported by the thinkess and the color intensity of all nodges and edges.
The more cases pass through this activity or tranisions, the thicker and darker its color will be.
Selections within the Process Explorer
You can apply a new Selection within the Process Explorer!
Choose any edge or nodge you wish to filter for, and right-click on it.
The following options are available:
Nodge (Activities)
Edges (Transitions)
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Creates a selection including all cases, that pass the selected activity.
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Creates a selection excluding this activity (all other cases that do not pass this activity will be selected).
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Selects all cases who start with this activity.
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Selects all cases who end with this activity.
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You can group activities to be displayed as a single activity. This will however not create a Selection as the options above. Let's assume, we want to group the activities "Print and Send Purchase Order (Paper)", "Send Purchase Order (eOrder)", "Send Purchase Order (eMail)" and "Send Purchase Order Update". Click on any of these activities, and select "Group Activities". The following window will open:
Select all activities, and (optionally) name your group. The name will be displayed in the Selection Bar and in the Process Explorer.
Confirm your selection with
The new group will now combine all incoming cases.
To edit/ungroup the created group, right-click on the group and select "Edit Group" to add/remove activities from this group, or "Ungroup" to delete this group. With "Expand Group" you will temporarily dissolve the group. All included activities will show up in the Process Map again, with a small
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Creates a Selection with all cases that pass this edge. All other cases will be removed from your Selection.
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Creates a Selection with all cases that do not pass this edge. All cases that pass this connection will be removed from your Selection.
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