Executive Intelligence System (EIS) – EIS Action Tab

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Last updated: Jan 30, 2024
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The 'Actions' tab shows performance of all the actions in the given hierarchy level in relation to action progress and linked budgets. You can easily identify the current status of actions based on traffic lights indicators and also view the latest progress comments. 

All the information would globally be filtered out as per the selection of hierarchy tree filter together with period filter.

  • STEP 1: To view actions, click the Actions tab.
    Actions on this page are ordered by action ID.

Figure 1.1

The following fields are available within action grid by default:

Field

Description

Field

Description

Action

Displays the action title defined within action detail area.

Start Date

Displays the action start Date defined within action detail area.

End Date

Displays the action end  date defined within action detail area.

Service Profile

Displays the service profile linked to a particular action within action details area.

Business Unit

Displays the business unit linked to a particular action within action detail area.

Responsible Person

Displays the action responsible person selected within action detail area.

Last Updated

Displays the last updated date of the action.

Progress

Displays the progress bar with percentage completed.

Performance

Displays the Action Progress (see section Action Thresholds above).

Note: Traffic light indicator will be red for actions that have not yet started and for actions where start date has been passed. This is due to the fact that system considers them as ‘Off Track’.

Budget

Displays the budget performance (please refer the article Administration - Configuration section on Budget Threshold for further information).

Email

Displays the email control.

Comments

Progress comments for each action can be viewed by clicking the icon.

  • STEP 2: Click on the Filter icon to filter any actions you are specifically looking for.  Below filters are available to ease the search.

Filter

Description

Filter

Description

Search

Type a keyword to search for.

Tags

Select the Tag from the drop-down list.

Action  Filter

Select the Action filter from the drop-down list.

Status

Select the status of the action.

Risk Rating

Select the Risk rating for the action.

Action Grouping

Choose the action grouping category.

Agency

Select the agency.

Related Plans

Choose the related plan of the action.

Budget Type

Select the budget type for the action.

  1. Select the Hide Completed checkbox to hide the completed actions from the search list. However, if you have selected 'completed' in filter option 'Status', refrain from ticking this checkbox. If you wish to save the filter options you selected to be used next time as well, you can tick the Save as default checkbox. You can use the Clear Filters button to clear the filter selections.

  2. You can search or group Actions to analyse information more easily.

  3. For example, to view Actions by a Responsible person, drag the responsible person field to the ‘group by’ area. You can also group by multiple column headers, for example you can group by business unit first then responsible person.

  4. To filter any off-track items, type off track in the Search box.

  • STEP 3: To view the latest progress comments, click on the comment icon for a particular action.

  • STEP 4: To find out more detailed information in relation to an action, click the Action hyperlink. A new window will be opened, and the EIS page remains open.
    You have the option of exporting the data to an Excel sheet by clicking on the excel export icon.

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