- Release notes
- Before you begin
- Managing access
- 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
- Transforming data
- Customizing process apps
- Publishing process apps
- App templates
- Notifications
- Additional resources
Process Mining
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. The following illustration shows 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 objects going through the activities/edges.
Also, the number of objects 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. Check out 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 activity 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.
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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. |
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Maximum |
every possible path in the process is shown in the process graph. |
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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. |
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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 objects selected using the Variants slider are displayed underneath the Variants slider.
You can use the zoom in/zoom out buttons at the bottom to change the magnification of the process graph. The following table describes the buttons.
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Button |
Select 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.
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Action |
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Select the activity metric icon |
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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.
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Action |
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Select the edge metric icon |
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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.
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Action |
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Select the settings icon |
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Enable the Show node metric option in the Settings popup. |
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.
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Description |
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Displays the available options for creating a filter. | |
| Displays available options for exporting the process graph. Check out 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. Check outSending automation ideas to UiPath Automation Hub. | |
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Enables you to start a Task Mining project from Process Mining. Check out Starting a Task Mining project from Process Mining | |
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Enables you to trigger an automation from Process Mining. Check out Triggering an automation from a process app |
Process graph heatmap is a visual analytics feature designed to help you observe how events unfold across your process over time. It is especially useful for detecting congestion points, happy paths, and understanding how your process executes.
Process graph heatmap provides you with a dynamic visualization of process flows, highlighting the areas with the highest concentration of activities or events that happen over a period of time. The heatmap enables you to track changes and patterns in a process behavior dynamically, and helps you identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies and high-traffic areas in the process. These insights can help in optimizing processes and making informed decisions.
In process graph heatmap, the intensity of the color and the thicknes of lines show where most objects are concentrated. As events move through the process, edges and activities will grow thicker and appear in darker shades to represent higher volumes of events occurring over time.
Process graph heatmap visually highlights the most traveled paths where objects are delayed or got stuck. This can be helpful, for example, investigating root causes for late invoices in your Order-to-Cash process.
Process graph heatmap can also help to identify unauthorized, non-compliant, or deviant process paths, including instances where steps such as approvals are bypassed or fast-tracked. This can be valueable for example, for a procurement team, to ensure transactions follow the correct approval procedures and adhere to company policies.
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Select the Show process graph heatmap icon in the process graph utility bar. The process graph is turned into a heatmap format with a neutral state, ready to animate.
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Select the Start animation button in the process graph utility to start a visual animation where different lines or areas get darker, reprensenting larger concentration of events that happen within a particular edge or activity.
The Start animation button is a toggle button. Once you have started the animation, the button is labeled as Pause animation. If you see a high concentration of event, you can pause the animation at any time for a further investigation of the results.
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.
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Inefficiency |
Description |
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Bottleneck | Activities that take double the average throughput time or activities that have highest throughput time.
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The top 5 bottlenecks are displayed. |
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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.
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Low automation |
Activities that have an automation rate less than the average automation rate. |
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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 metric values as percentages
- Showing or hiding the process graph legend
- Using the context menu
- Process graph heatmap
- Showing process graph heatmap
- Starting an animation
- Identifying process inefficiencies
- Viewing details on a process inefficiency
