Use filters
By using the Filters feature of the Power Automate Process Mining desktop app, you can use a subset of cases as part of your process analysis. You can use filters to help you identify and focus on parts of the process that might be more problematic. For example, you can use filters to create subsets of cases that filter on the following parameters:
Define only a certain period.
Include only specific resources or scenarios in the process.
Exclude activities that aren't important for the current analytical problem.
Include only complete cases in your analysis.
You can export filters and then import them into other views or processes to reuse them.
Filter levels
You can apply filters at the event or case level. When you apply filters at the event level, the system filters individual events from the overall set of analyzed data. When you apply filters at the case level, the system filters all events for that case. The system applies event filters before case filters.
Filter types
You can create different types of case and event filters. Additionally, you can combine case and event level filters to form a single combined filtering criteria in a view. The following table shows the different types of filters that you can create.
| Event level filter types | Case level filter types |
|---|---|
| - Event attributes | - Timeframe |
| - Subprocess | - Case attributes |
| - Event metrics | - Attributes (conditional) |
| - Edge (conditional) | |
| - Variants | |
| - Case metrics | |
| - Sequence | |
| - End events |
The following video explores how you can create and use filters from the Power Automate Process Mining desktop app.
As described in the video, filters can be simple or complex. Taking the time to be proficient at building good filters is important when you're defining a subset of case data that's useful for analyzing your particular business process.