Define Milestones

Milestones are key components in an Insight model. They define points in a business process that represent progress and can be mapped to an action in the business process implementation.

For more information about milestones, see Milestones and Map Milestones to Integration Actions.

A Business User/Analyst defines milestones, in collaboration with an Integration Architect who maps the milestones to actions in the business process implementation.

To define milestones:

1. On the Models page, open the model for editing.
2. On the Milestones page:
   • Enter a name and optional description for the Initial and Terminal milestones if not already specified.
   • Click Add a Milestone to define additional milestones for the model.
   • For each new milestone, enter a milestone name and description, and select the milestone type (Standard, Error, Terminal, or Terminal/Error).
   • To delete a milestone, click next to the milestone name, and select Delete.
   
   

   

   
   

   Notice that the right pane shows an outline view of the milestones, where you can select Highlight unmapped milestones for a quick summary view of those milestones that need to be mapped to an integration.

   
   

   

   
   

   Any pending tasks are shown under Messages in the right pane. Click the link in each message to perform the necessary task.

   
   
   
3. Click Save.

To map milestones to integration actions, see Map Milestones to Integration Actions.

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