Access to the Executive Portal is limited to Administrators, Strategic Planners, Directors and Business Unit Managers so they may easily update and sign off relevant executive level reports built for variety of purposes.

It automatically directs you to your level of the organisational hierarchy  and the report flagged as ‘Default’ within the Executive > Build area, but you may select a different report and/or a different reporting year when it's required. If a description or a set of instructions have been included within a report, it will also be displayed.

You would only be able to view the items linked to your hierarchy level.  However, users with Administrator or Strategic Planner security permissions will be presented with a view always default to top most level of the organisational hierarchy and they will be able to view and sign off any item in the system.

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The portal comprises of individual sections for,

• Show Commentary: allows entry of various comment types (configured by your Administrator) at your level of the organisation.

• Actions: allows entry of an executive comment and/or business highlight against the configured actions.

• KPIs: allows entry of an executive comment against the configured KPIs.

• Scorecards: allows entry of an executive comment against configured Scorecards.

Under any of these section, maximum of 5 records can be displayed and if you wish to see the list of all the records available under a specific topic, you have to click on the area which shows the number of records (Showing X of Y). This will expand the update area displaying maximum of 15 records at once, and therefore if there are more than 15 records, the remaining will be ordered within numbered pages. You can use the number buttons to navigate to the other pages.

Once you have selected the report you need to update, follow the below steps:

1.1 To Update Commentary:

The type of comments that can be added under this section will be configured under Administration > Executive Comment Type.

• STEP 1: Click on the Show Commentary bar to expand the update section.

• STEP 2: Type the title and comments under each comment type and select save option. You can append comments from levels below according to your requirements.

• STEP3: Click on the Commentary bar again to collapse the update area.

Alternatively, these comments can be added through the Executive Report editor in the Build area. For more information refer to Adding Executive Comments in the 'Tools – Executive Build' article.

1.2 To Update Actions, KPIs and Scorecards:

You can see the strategies, actions, KPIs and scorecards that are linked to this report according to your Organisational Hyperlink.

• STEP 1: Type the executive comments.

• STEP 2: Include the title and comments under the business highlights column. You can append comments from levels below using the Append Comment button adjacent to it.

You can update individual or multiple records under one section at once.

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• STEP 3: If you are the Business Unit Manager, you can sign off the relevant records by ticking the adjacent tick boxes and save the changes. For example, If you wish to sign off single or multiple Actions, you can tick the tick-boxes against the records and save the change.

The tick box given next to the sign off column header can be used to tick the sign off check boxes shown against the records currently displayed in the section. Once the selection is made, you can save the changes. The sign off all icon can be used if you wish to sign off the entire list given under a particular section at once.

The same updates can be done through the Executive Report Editor in the build area.

You can send an email with regard to the relevant record, by clicking on the email icon.

These strategies, actions, KPIs and Scorecards will not be considered as signed off until a user with Director access or above also signs off using the same process. (With the exception of Administrator and Strategic Planner).

• Business Unit Manager Signs off + Director Signs off = Record signed off.

• Business Manager Signs off + Director doesn't sign off = Record not signed off.

• Business Unit Manager doesn't Sign off + Director Signs off = Record signed off.

For more features available under each section, please refer to the Common Icons. Common icons available in the executive portal function similar to the My Updates home page.