Measure Overview

The measure overview provides a description of the DI measure, including how the measure is calculated and the business logic behind it. If you have purchased a Measure Factory application, you can find measures overviews by:

  1. On the DivePort home page for the Measure Factory application, click the Measure Dictionary link.

    Measure dictionary icon.

    The Measure Dictionary page opens.

  2. Click the measure for which you want to see a definition.

    Depending on the click actions that were added to the dictionary, one of two things happens:

    • If Measure Overview portal page click action is the only click action that was added to the dictionary, The Measure Overview page opens directly.

    • If more than one click action was added to the dictionary, a Closedcontext menu opens. Select Measure Overview to open the Measure Overview page.

      Part of the measure dictionary showing average length of stay measures and context menu.

    The definition is described on the Overview tab.

On a portlet that lists Measures in the left column, such as a Matrix portlet, click the name of the measure for which you want to see a definition.

Example of a matrix portlet showing the context menu for a measure.

The Measure Overview page opens. The definition is described on the Overview tab.

On a portlet that includes a Measure information link click action, click the Measure Information Closedicon.

Portlet with a measure information click action.

The Measure Overview page opens. The definition is described on the Overview tab.

Example of a measure overview.

An example of a measure overview page.

NOTE: Items detailed in the following table are specified for each measure in the factory configuration file built using Workbench.

Overview Category Description
Definition

Specifies what the measure represents.
Business Logic

Specifies the rules that make up the measure.
Expression

The syntax used to generate the measure:

  • Calculation—An operation used to produce a value.
  • Filter—A specification that determines available values.
References Identifies industry-standard documents that support the measure definition and business logic.
More Details

Additional details:

  • Category—Specifies the group associated with the measure.
  • Good Direction—One of two values (up or down) that tells you whether higher or lower values indicate improvements in performance.
  • View—The date or event on which the measure is based.
  • Data Set—The data structure that supplies the values for the measure.

The Measure Overview page also contains information about the measure data, including default analysis portlets. Click on a time series option, such as YTD to see the associated default analysis portlet on the right-side pane.

Analysis portlet section of the measure overview page.

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