After you’ve configured the data you want to visualize, you can begin mining the project.

Before you begin

Role required: po_analyst

About this task

Process Mining extracts a maximum limit of 500,000 records. If that limit is reached with the table you selected, add additional filters to refine the data set.
Note:
  • Optimizing a project may take significant time. While extraction is in progress for a project, you cannot explore its process map.
  • During a full or sample mining, Process Mining analyzes the audit log.

Procedure

  1. From the application navigator, navigate to Process Mining > Process Mining Workspace.
  2. From the project's card menu, select:
    • Mine project (Full) to mine the full project.
    • Mine project (Sample) to mine up to 3,600 records, rather than mining all records applicable to a project.
      Note: Mining a sample enables an analyst to validate project configuration settings before performing a full data extraction of the project.
  3. Select OK to confirm you want to begin mining the project.
  4. (Optional) Select Notify once complete if you want to be added to the watch list.
    You will receive an email notification after the mining is complete. The job limit per day is set to 50 by default. If you exceed the limit, an error message is displayed.
  5. (Optional) Select View progress to see the details of the mining.

    After the mining is complete, a Mining Summary page is displayed. This page provides additional details about the mining. It also lists any finding definition that wasn’t included in the mining and provides a link to understand the actual cause. You can also view the logs or go to the Process Mining Workspace and view the graph.

    Mining summary

Result

If the extraction completes successfully, the project card shows the mining state as Available.

Cancel a mining job

An analyst, power user, or administrator can cancel a mining job currently in process.

Before you begin

Role required: none

Procedure

Select Cancel during mining of a project to cancel the process.

It can take several minutes before the cancel process completes. The unit of work in progress at the time of canceling mining must complete before cancellation occurs.

The mining state on the Project Definition form shows as Cancelled.

Mine states

When attempting to mine a project, the project workflow record shows one of these states.

Table 1. Workflow record mine states
StateDescription
New Mining has not been attempted on the project data.
Mining Data Mining is in process for the project.
Cancelling Mining is in process of user-initiated cancellation.
Cancelled A user cancelled mining that was in process for the project.
Available Mining has been performed on the data and the process map visualization is available to view.
Error Mining was attempted but did not complete successfully.
  • New projects that have not yet been successfully mined cannot be opened in the Analyst Workbench.
  • You can attempt a data refresh from the Analyst Workbench on a project that has been successfully mined from its workflow record. An error icon error icon displays when project data does not refresh successfully. To investigate for details, view the Extract Data Log tab from the Project Definition form.
Scheduled A job has been scheduled for the project to be mined at a specified time interval.
Note: If there are several projects scheduled for mining within a job, the projects execute sequentially. For example, a job which has Projects 1 and 2 scheduled within it will mine Project 1 first, then begin mining Project 2 after mining of Project 1 completes.