A Business Measure helps in measuring a particular aspect of a business process or any external data. The Business Measure provides a view on the selected attributes, contained in a Process Monitoring Object or the external data source.

1. Select a starting point and select (Business Measure) to create a Business Measure. The Untitled BusinessMeasure - BusinessMeasure window appears.
   
2. Enter Name and Description of the Business Measure.
   
3. Select Datasource for the Business Measure.
   
4. Click Next to build Query.
   
5. Click Next to select a Web service and a time-frame.
   
6. Click Finish.
   The Business Measure is created and added to the project content tree.

   After you complete this task:
   

   1. The business measure created is available as a composite control and you can drag the composite control in Dashboard (XForms) designer. Right-click or double-click the composite control and specify properties to it such as view type, ranges, input parameters, so on and then view it in the dashboard.
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   • For further details on creating an User Interface (XForm) refer Creating XForms.
     
   • You can save and assign the created XForms (using composite controls) to a user or role to view it as a dashboard. For further details on assigning the XForm to a user refer Assigning Tasks to Users.
     
     

   1. You must publish the Business Measure.
      

   Note: You cannot rename a Business Measure once it is created.