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Hi,

I am speaking about a "Descending - Lower is better Measure" from this point on:

A Flex amount in PMF indicates how far above the target you can be and still show a green indicator. A Threshold is the amount that you can be above target and show a yellow indicator.

For example, I have a target of 2.5% which would normally mean that if I am between 0 and 2.5% I am green, and if I am between 2.51% and 3% I am yellow (0.5% Threshold). Let's pretend the Flex is 0, so you must be on target or lower for green.

My client is wondering if they can re-purpose the Flex/Threshold system to warn if they are getting close to being bad. I'm calling it a negative threshold, just for fun.

For example, the same measure has a target of 2.5%, but they want to show yellow if they are close between 2.0 and 2.5%, even though they are still below the target. Sort of like an early warning system, I suppose.

I was able to drag the handles in the Threshold/Flex pop-up dialog box to indicate -0.5%, click Accept and then save the measure. However, when I went back into the Edit Measure screen, the Threshold and Flex was reset to zero.

So, I'd say this is not possible, but I want confirmation before I advise my client.

Cheers,

Joey

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Joey,

Have you tried to type in the Threshold/Flex numbers and see if they are saved correctly?

Greg



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Hi Greg,

Long time no see; I think last summer in NYC with Janice. Hope you are well.

As for this issue, I did try to type the values in, but it was the same situation. It said it saved, but a refresh reveals it has reverted back to zeros.

Cheers,

Joey


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Hi Joey,

Things are well, Thanks!
Glad to see you are doing interesting work with PMF.

Is there an opportunity for you to upgrade to 5.1.2? I used that version last week and this feature worked, both, through dragging and entering the numbers.

Good luck!



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Joey,

Try a negative whole number.

I just played around with 5.1.2 and discovered that it will not save the fraction part of a negative thresh/flex, only the whole number.

I don't think this is what you want.

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The Weighting Decimals setting in PMF controls significant digits used... make sure that's not set to 0.


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I wish this was it but it's set to 2 for me, Bob.

Thanks.



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My system was set to 1 Weighting Decimals, and changing it to 2 had no effect on this problem.


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You're right... it doesn't have an effect. It looks like if it's negative PMF does not save the decimal portion. We'll plan to re-base 5.1.2 with a fix for this.


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You mean that Moogle found a bug? :-) Will this be addressed in 5.1.3? I'm sure Moogle will ask this question if I dont't....


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Yes, he did!

Since there are no DB changes to 5.1.2 required to fix this and since we aren't planning for 5.1.3 to be Generally Available (and the next release after that is months away), we plan to "re-base" 5.1.2 with this fix in the very near future. There are a few other issues fixed in this planned "re-base." You'll be able to tell if you're running the re-base version by the code date on the About box.


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Joey,

Back to your original question. Have you thought about using the benchmark, forecast or stretch target fields to accomplish this? Granted it means you are not using one of these fields -- but you could load the system with one of these values set to give warning if the measure is getting close to being bad.

-Seth


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Hi Seth,

I talked the client out of this whole negative threshold thing. We have gone back to using "Green if it's withing target," Yellow if it's a little beyond target and red if it's really beyond target.

It's not even that this is a bug that made me recommend moving away from this type of thing, it's just that none of the other measures were setup this way. I didn't want a user to see two yellow measures and have the yellow indicate two different meanings.


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