In addition to the Enterprise Analytics functionality available to you as a Manufacturing Intelligence Designer, you will also be able to access integrated non-Shoplogix data sources within the same analytics platform.
As a designer, you have all the viewing capabilities that a viewer has but you will also be able to create and design dashboards with integrated data sources that are not native to Shoplogix. The fields will be available to select just like the core Shoplogix data. You will be able to select the non-native Shoplgix fields along side Shoplogix core fields.
If you are creating a widget with non-Shoplogix fields alongside Shoplogix core data, you need to ensure the proper Dimensions and grouping options make sense and are joined properly. For example the a Absenteeism source may only have a single date field in the source and it cannot be displayed with a shift. Attempts to display will result in incorrect results.
Depending on how the external data sources are integrated, you will be able to chart the sources with some common Shoplogix groupings. Typically external sources are integrated alongside Shoplogix machines, jobs, days or shifts. You will then be able to create dashboards to correlate external information with actual production data that is automatically collected from Shoplogix.
Global Formulas
Creating global formulas requires special permissions as these formulas will be accessible to everyone and there should only be a very limited number of users managing this per organization. As a designer; you will have access to any custom global formulas that have been created by your organization. Select the formula you want to use when creating your widget.
The formulas can use the external data set alongside with Shoplogix native data.
