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Create activity mappings

To evaluate the process flow in ARIS Process Mining in line with the reference process, you must map the modeled tasks of the reference process to the activities of the source system.

The mapping is created based on the names of modeled tasks and the activities from the source system. Various modeled tasks of the reference process with the same names are reduced to one task and treated as one accordingly.

The source system might provide activity names that differ from the modeled task names in ARIS. If the modeled tasks and provided activities have the same names, they can be mapped automatically.

Note that if you change the currently activated event log used in your analysis model, the current activity mapping remains unchanged. However, changes are displayed in the current activity mapping, for example, deleted activities in the changed event log are displayed as a User-created activity in the activity mapping.

Prerequisites

  • Data was loaded from the source system into the data set.

  • You have transferred the reference process to the data set.

  • You have at least the Edit privilege for the data set for your conformance analysis.

Procedure. Procedure

  1. Open the data set that contains the process for which you want to create an activity mapping.

  2. Click Reference processes in the data set panel. The Reference processes section opens with the Reference processes page. The page lists all reference processes that are available for the data set.

  3. Click the name of a reference process. The page to create a mapping opens.

  4. Click Auto-Map Automatic mapping to automatically map the tasks and activities of the same name. If no identical names exist, the option is not available.

  5. You can map tasks and activities manually.

    1. First select a task or an activity on one of the two sides. The selected element is placed at the top of the list, all other elements are grayed out.

    2. Select the element to be mapped according to your first selection on the other side. The mapped elements are connected and placed on the same line below the unmapped elements.

    3. To undo a mapping, move the mouse pointer over a mapped element and click the Refresh Reset icon.

  6. You can mark a task or an activity as ignored ignored. The marked element is not used for the conformance analysis. Move the mouse pointer over an element and click ignored Mark as ignored. The element is crossed out.

    To undo your selection, move the mouse pointer over an element and click the Refresh Reset icon.

  7. You can mark an activity as unwanted unwanted. The marked element is considered in the analysis as an "is unwanted" issue type. Move the mouse pointer over an element and click unwanted Mark as unwanted. The element is crossed out.

    To undo your selection, move the mouse pointer over an element and click the Refresh Reset icon.

  8. You can see whether a task has already been mapped to an activity and use this mapping.

    1. Move the mouse pointer to a task.

    2. Click the Show mappings Show other mappings button. Existing mappings are shown, if available.

    3. Select a mapping. The selected mapping is assigned to the task.

  9. You can add a new activity that does not yet exist in the data set if, for example, you want to include a task in your analysis, but there is no matching activity yet.

    1. Click + Add activity.

    2. Enter a name and click Add.

      The new activity is added to the activity list. To delete the activity, move the mouse pointer over the activity and click the delete Delete icon.

  10. Click Activate mapping Activate mapping to save and activate the mapping for the data set.

  11. If required, click Recalculate to (re) calculate the conformance. ARIS Process Mining calculates the conformance of the cases and loads it into the data set.

You have created an activity mapping and loaded it into the data set.

Go back to the Reference process page. The Mapping state of the reference process is set to Complete.

If you want to use the mapping in the Compliance app to analyze the conformance of your processes, select the reference process and click Select for conformance check.