This object (fig. 1) is located in Objects – Common module and is used to store periods specified when creating KPIs in the ELMA KPI application and when creating process metrics and KPIs.
Fig. 1. “Periodicity” object
This page has quick search form that features advanced search and a table with the list of object elements (fig. 1).
You can configure the table. By default, it has the following columns: Name, Description, Typo, Grouping type, Calendar type, Order, Periods.
To open an item, click . To delete an item, click . When you click on the name of a periodicity, its page opens.
Creating a periodicity
To create a periodicity, click Create in the toolbar. The creation page will open (fig. 2):
Fig. 2. Periodicity creation page
Name – name of the new periodicity.
Description – description of the periodicity.
Type – select the type of the periodicity (day, week, month, etc) from the drop down list.
If you need to use a non-standard period, for example, shifts then select the User-defined type and then in the Periods field select the required period.
Grouping type– in this field you specify how the period to which belongs the created object shall be defined in an ambiguous situation.
For example, if the first day of a week is January and the last day of the same week is February, you have to decide to which month will this week belong:
By start date – the week will belong to January;
By period middle – depends on the fourth day of the week. If it is already February, then the week will belong to February;
By last day – the week will belong to February.
Calendar type – the type of the calendar for the created periodicity:
Business calendar – a calendar that takes into account all public holidays and weekends;
All days – a calendar that does not take into account public holidays and weekends and counts all days as business days.
Order – the serial number of the periodicity in its list. This order will be used in Web Application and ELMA Designer.
Periods – if you have specified the Type as User-defined, then in this field you have to select the required period. The periods in this field belong to the Periods object.
Toolbar
Click this button to save all the changes and add the created object element to the list of periods.
Click this button to cancel creating the object element. The changes will not be saved.
. To delete an item, click 
. When you click on the name of a periodicity, its page opens.
