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Recommendations

On this page you will learn about managing Recommendations in Kelvin UI.

Recommendations are generated from Kelvin SmartApp™ or from third party sources using the Kelvin API endpoint and will either be automatically accepted and implemented or wait for the Operations Engineers decision on the actions to take.

View Recommendations

Recommendations can be accessed from many locations.

You can see how to view Recommendations from the different areas of the Kelvin UI

Assets Menu

There are two main locations that you can view Recommendations for Assets.

Asset-centric Table

If you customize the Asset-centric table columns, you can add a filtered Recommendations column.

The default Asset-centric table does not show Recommendations in the coluumn.

You can read the documentation on how to show Recommendation column here.

Asset Details Page

When you select an Asset, in the Asset Details page you can see the Last Recommendation from any Kelvin SmartApp™ that is processing the selected Asset. You can read more about this feature here.

Or you can view and filter by status (Pending, Accepted, Rejected and Expired) all the Recommendations for the selected Kelvin SmartApp™. You can read more about this feature here.

SmartApp™ Menu

In the SmartApps™ menu you can see the Recommendations in the Assets-centrics table under the Assets tab.

The default Asset-centric table does not show Recommendations in the coluumn.

You can read the documentation on how to show Recommendation column here.

Data Explorer Menu

Every Recommendation performed is shown in the activity lane in the Data Explorer. This allows you to quickly and visually see the effects of individual Recommendation on your Data Streams.

If the X-axis scale is too small to show individual Recommendation times, then they will be grouped together and the icon will be a white circle with a number above indicating how many Recommendations are registered at that point in time.

Click on the white circle and the graph will automatically zoom to that location in time and show the individual Recommendations like below.

Info Popup

If you put your mouse over any Recommendation point in the time frame, a popup will display detailed information about the that Recommendation.

Hide Activity Lane

Recommendation activity lanes can be turned on or off from the visualization settings in the right hand sidebar.

Action a Recommendation

When you click on View More button (or See More in the Data Explorer popup) you will see the Recommendation popup where you can see the full details of the Recommendation.

In the Recommendations popup you can see the full details of the Recommendation on the left hand side.

This will include information about;

  • Recommendation Tag (In this example this is Decrease Speed)
  • Current Status (In this example this is Pending)
  • Assets that will be affect if Recommendation is accepted (In this example this is ESP #01)
  • Reason for the Recommendation
  • When the Recommendation will expire and automatically be rejected

The middle column named Recommendation Actions shows all the actions that will be taken if the recommendation is accepted.

This example gives only one action, but this could be a list of multiple actions to be implemented if the Recommendation accepted.

This will also give you information about the current setting when the Recommendation was created as well as the Recommended new setting.

The actions are not just limited to Control Changes but can also be one of the following;

  • Control Changes
  • Send Emails and Alerts (future feature)
  • Create Alarms (future feature)

Evidence are attachments to the recommendation that provide comprehensive information to Operations, enabling informed decision-making.

If evidence is attached, it may include one or more items in various formats, such as bar or line charts, dynacards, images and even IFrames to external websites.

You can add an unlimited amount of comments at any time to this Recommendation.

You do not need to Accept or Reject a Recommendation to add a comment.

Comments are very useful for;

  • Sharing information between Operations or shifts about certain Recommendations
  • As feedback to the Developer. The Developers can use the comments to determine how to improve the Kelvin SmartApps™ that produce the Recommendations.

To see or add comments, click on the comments icon

And then the comments will appear;