When you prioritize elements, you compare two alternatives according to one criterion at a time. Then, you combine the results to view a larger and more complex picture of the elements. You can base strategic decisions on those results.
To prioritize the elements and then visualize the results, you must first include the view that you created for the module in the Prioritize and Visualize menus.
Prerequisite
To set up a view to be prioritized, you must complete all the previous lessons in this tutorial.
Include the view in the Visualize and Prioritize menus
To include the All Cars view in the Prioritize and Visualize menus:
1 Log in to Focal Point® as Veena Doe.
2 Click the Settings icon , and then, from the Configure group, click Views.
3 On the All Views page, select All Cars.
4 In the Prioritize field, click Edit, select Include this view in the Prioritize menu, and click Save.
5 In the Visualize field, click Edit, select Include this view in the Visualize menu, and click Save.
By default, the Criteria field is set to All criteria. For this tutorial, you are not required to edit this attribute because you added only two criteria in the criteria module. In a different scenario, you might have many criteria for many element types. In that case, you can select the required criteria by defining a view of the relevant criteria and linking the criteria attribute to the view.
The All Cars view is listed in the Prioritize and Visualize menus.
Prioritize cars
1 From the Prioritize menu, select All Cars.
The question is based on the criteria that you use to prioritize the elements. From the list in the toolbar, make sure that No Filter is selected so that you can compare all the cars.
2 Compare two elements, Car A and Car C, and indicate which one looks better by using the scale. For example, if you think Car A looks better, select a radio button to the left. The scale is relative, and it does not use units of measurement. If you select the radio button to the far left, you are not indicating that Car A looks twice or three times better than Car C.
3 Continue comparing the cars in pairs. After you complete 13 comparisons, a message opens, which states that you can visualize the results.
You can now view the results of the comparison in different types of charts to analyze the data.
Lesson checkpoint
In this lesson, you learned how to set up a view for prioritization and visualization. You also learned how to do a pairwise comparison of elements.
, and then, from the Configure group, click Views.