What Happens when You Generate a Simulation Report

11-4 Modeling and Implementation Guide for Oracle Business Process Management sampling points defined in the project. You can configure which processes in your project, or which activities in your project generate sampling points in these databases. You can configure the sampling point generation at the following levels: ■ Project ■ Process ■ Activity You can configure your project to generate sampling points for all the activities in the processes it contains or only for interactive activities. You can also choose not to generate sampling points for the processes in this project. BPMN processes use this value when they are configured to use the project default settings. By default, the project is configured to generate sampling points only for interactive activities. You can configure your processes to use a setting for sampling point generation different from the one defined by the project. Generally you do this to improve the performance of the project. For example, if your project contains a process that contains multiple activities and you are not interesting in obtaining process metrics for this process, then you might choose to configure the process to not generate sampling points. Another example is if you are interested in measuring only one process within your project, then you might choose to configure the project to not generate sampling points and configure that particular process to generate sampling points. By default, the process is configured to use the project sampling point configuration. You can also configure one or more of the activities in your process to use a sampling point setting different from the one used in your process. For example, you might choose to configure all the gateway activities in your process to not generate sampling points because you consider these metrics do not provide relevant information. By default activities are configured to use the process sampling point configuration. If in turn, the process is configured to use the project configuration, then the activities use the configuration the project specifies.

11.3.1 How to Configure the Sampling Point Generation of a Project

You can configure the sampling point generation at the project level. To configure the sampling point generation of a project: 1. In the BPM Project Navigator, right-click the project you want to configure.

2. Select Project Preferences.

3. In the Process Analytics Summary tab, in the Project Sample Points section, select

an option. Available options are: Option Description Generate Only for Interactive Activities Generate sampling points only for the user tasks in the processes contained in the project. Generate for All Activities Generate sampling points for all the activities in the processes contained in the project. Do Not Generate Do not generate sampling points for any of the activities in the processes contained in the project. Using Process Analytics 11-5

4. Click OK.

11.3.2 What Happens When You Configure a Project To Generate Sampling Points

All the processes you create within a project use the sampling point configuration defined for that project, unless you edit the process properties to use a different configuration for that specific process.

11.3.3 How to Configure the Sampling Point Generation for a Process

You can configure the sampling point generation at a process level. To configure sampling point for a Process: 1. In the BPM Project Navigator, right-click the process you want to configure.

2. Select Properties.

3. Click the Advanced tab.

4. In the Process Sampling Points section, select an option. Available options are:

5. Click OK.

11.3.4 What Happens When You Configure the Sampling Point Generation for a Process

The BPMN Service Engine uses the defined sampling point configuration to decide whether to store the Process Analytics information, regardless of what the project sampling point configuration indicates. The activities in the process use the process sampling point configuration, unless you edit them to use a different configuration.d

11.3.5 How to Configure the Sampling Point Generation for an Activity

You can configure the sampling point generation at the activity level. To configure the sampling point generation for an activity: 1. Right-click the activity you want to configure.

2. Select Properties.

3. Click the Basic tab.

4. Expand the Sampling Points section.

5. Select an option. Available options are: Option Description Inherit Project Default The process uses the project sampling point configuration to decide if it generates sampling points. Generate Only for Interactive Activities Generate sampling points only for the user tasks in the process. Generate for All Activities Generate sampling points for all the activities in the process. Do Not Generate Do not generate sampling points for any of the activities in the process.