--- title: "Your First Analysis: From Dashboard to Minerva" url: "https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/your-first-analysis-from-dashboard-to-minerva" language: "en" last_updated: "2026-10-23T08:22:00.724Z" --- # Your First Analysis: From Dashboard to Minerva Your first hour with a perspective that is already set up: key figures on a dashboard, how cases really run in the Analyzer, a filter, and a question to Minerva next to the graph. This guide is for your first hour with Noreja when a perspective for your process is already set up: you see its key figures on a dashboard, look at how cases really run in the Analyzer, narrow them down with a filter and ask Minerva about what you see. The examples use the Purchase-to-Pay perspective, which describes a purchasing process. If no perspective is set up yet, start with [Your First Project: From Data Source to Dashboard and Minerva](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/your-first-project-from-data-source-to-dashboard-and-minerva). > **Permissions:** feature **Dashboard**: **Read** to open dashboards, **Create** to create your own. Feature **Analyzer**: **Read** to open analyzer tabs and filter them, **Create** to create your own, **Edit** to save filters with a tab. Feature **Chat**: **Create** for the **Minerva-AI** switch. Dashboards and analyzer tabs shared with you can be opened without the feature. See [Create and Edit Roles](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/create-and-edit-roles). ### Before You Start - At least one perspective is shared with you. A perspective is what you choose in the Analyzer and on dashboards: the model of one process, for example Purchase-to-Pay. If the lists are empty, ask the person who manages your data to share a perspective with you; see [Share Your Work with Colleagues](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/share-your-work-with-colleagues). - To create your own tabs and to use Minerva next to them, you need the permissions above. If you don't see the **+** in the Tab Explorer or the **Minerva-AI** switch in the top bar, ask your administrator. See [Navigating Noreja](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/navigating-noreja). ### 1\. Get an Overview on a Dashboard - Open **Dashboard** in the top menu. Dashboards shared with you are listed in the Tab Explorer under **Shared with me**. - To create your own, click **+**, choose the perspective, enter a **Dashboard name**, tick **Add default widgets?** and click **Create**. This needs **Dashboard**: **Create**. ![The dialog Create Dashboard with the perspective Purchase-to-Pay, the dashboard name Supplier overview, Add default widgets? ticked, and Private selected](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/bc7379af-4bb0-4b1b-97eb-97baa7a8c9b7) With **Add default widgets?** ticked, the new dashboard starts with Noreja's default widgets. The first row shows the four basic figures, a good place to start: - **Case amount**: how many cases there are, for example 5,520 orders. - **Variant amount**: how many different routes the cases took. - **Average process duration**: how long a case takes on average from its first to its last activity. - **Violation rate**: how many cases skipped a step or ran in the wrong order. Below them follow the four **Process complexity** widgets, **End activity type distribution**, **Process variants**, **Batching activity distribution** and **Average rework rate**. You can remove, move and add widgets afterwards. What each figure means is explained in [KPIs Explained](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/kpis-explained) and [Dashboard Widgets](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/create-a-new-dashboard); how to add and arrange widgets in [Create a Dashboard Tab](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/dashboard-general). ### 2\. See How Cases Really Run - Open **Analyzer**, click **+** at the top of the Tab Explorer, choose the perspective, enter a **Tab name** and click **Create**. This needs **Analyzer**: **Create**; without it, open a tab shared with you under **Shared with me**. - The tab opens with the process graph of all cases. Click an activity or a relationship to see its figures below the graph. - On the left, click the first variant: the graph now shows only the cases that took the most frequent route. The circular arrow shows all cases again. ![A new analyzer tab on Purchase-to-Pay: the filter bar with Add filters and Apply, the list of variants on the left, the process model in the middle, and on the right the settings panel with the views Process, Case, Pattern and Timeline](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/38942672-fa2a-47ce-94e3-6e1411c4c4a7) The numbers on activities say how often they were executed, those on relationships how many executions took that relationship. The thicker a relationship, the larger the share of its first activity's executions that took it. See [Create an Analyzer Tab](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/create-an-analyzer-tab), [Work with the Process View](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/process-view) and [Elements in Noreja Process Graphs](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/elements-in-noreja-process-graphs). ### 3\. Narrow It Down with a Filter - Click **Add filters** in the filter bar and choose a filter, for example **Activity types** to keep only cases with a certain activity, or a date range. - Set the values and click **Apply**. ![A filter group: IS, Activity types with zahlung außerhalb skontofrist, AND, Violations with ✓ selected, and the Apply button](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/4bf8e4fa-38d9-4387-b8a3-4e66ecf963b3) The graph and its figures are calculated again from the matching cases. A filter always keeps or drops whole cases. Anyone who can open the tab can filter it, but the filter is saved with the tab only if you may edit it (**Analyzer**: **Edit**, or an Edit share). See [Filter Cases in the Analyzer and Dashboards](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/filter-setting-in-the-analyzer). ### 4\. Ask Minerva about What You See Switch on **Minerva-AI** in the top bar while the analyzer tab is open; the switch needs **Chat**: **Create**. Minerva opens next to the tab and can read the graph, the filters and what you selected, so short questions work: "Which transition takes longest on average in this view?" ![An analyzer tab on Purchase-to-Pay with the Minerva panel next to it: asked which transition takes longest in this view, Minerva read the graph on the screen and names the transition, underlined as a link to the graph](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/d7a906d6-e18e-4134-82a9-1fd5f3f100de) Hover over an underlined name in the answer to see it in the graph. For longer conversations and files, use the chat page: open it from the profile menu (the person icon in the top bar; see [Navigating Noreja](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/navigating-noreja)). With **Chat**: **Read** alone, the chat page is where you work with Minerva. See [Chat with Minerva](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/minerva-chat-ui-functionalities) and [Get Better Answers from Minerva](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/get-better-answers-from-minerva). ### Next Steps - Keep your tabs in order with folders, favorites and subtabs: [Organise Your Analyses: Tab Explorer, Folders, Favorites and Subtabs](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/organise-your-analyses-tab-explorer-folders-favorites-and-subtabs). - Share a dashboard or an analyzer tab with colleagues: [Share Your Work with Colleagues](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/share-your-work-with-colleagues). - Find out where and why cases deviate: [Process Patterns: Disarray, Negligence, Rework and Allowed Deviations](https://docs.noreja.com/en/article/process-pattern-types).