Question Re: Activities as dictionary items in Technology Q&A

Activities as dictionary items

vp_nbn — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:24:13 GMT

Hello,

I was wondering whether anybody in the community has experience with using the Activity category within the Dictionary. What is the use-case you are using it for? I would love to hear from you. Thanks.

Kind regards,

Vladimir

Re: Activities as dictionary items

bronas — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 06:16:18 GMT

Hi Vladimir,

the dicitionary usage on activity level is not enforced. However we find it useful to further describe our activities in the description. Many activities are reusable. So it is easy to maintain the description centrally in the dictionary. For example the creation of purchase orders is the same for different processes. Our user maintain the description in the dictionary and with that change it automatically in other processes as well.

Another example is the central administration of web services. For us describing a web service works best on activity level. We defined web services as a subcategory and have a great overview of our used web services and see the assigned processes.

However this is not enforced in the model check. Using it for every activity (even if it is used just once) would be too much maintenance effort.

Kind regards

Jonas

Re: Activities as dictionary items

rada_sereseanu12 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 13:12:18 GMT

Hi Vladimir,

we are using the activities in the dictionary the same like Jonas explained it. We save into dictionary only activities that are reusable.

Cheers

Rada

Re: Activities as dictionary items

vp_nbn — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:24:49 GMT

Hi Jonas,

thanks for a quick response and for a providing an interesting use-case I didn't think of so far. I was hoping you could give me some additional examples (other than purchase orders) of activities you have added into the dictionary. Also, can you please elaborate in more detail the web services example?

Thanks a lot!

Kind regards,

Vladimir

Re: Activities as dictionary items

vp_nbn — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:26:53 GMT

Thanks for your response Rada.

I would really appreciate if you could give me a few practical examples for reusable activities you have in your dictionary.

Thanks!

Kind regards,

Vladimir

Re: Activities as dictionary items

rada_sereseanu12 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 10:38:27 GMT

Hi Vladimir,

in each department are maybe activities that are recurring, they can also be activity with a subprocess, like for example order processing, create BOM, dissolve BOM, check contract, release contract, check order, open production order, etc.

This something that you will check during the modeling process, if there are activities that you can reuse, that means that you have to be closely involved in the process modeling and also use your capability to question a process and optimize it.

Hope my answer could help you closer!

Cheers

Rada