Revision as of 14:33, 24 December 2018

Bulk Actions 

Users can perform bulk actions using the Bulk Actions tile on the Dashboard to create and update entities directly within ICM. You can also perform these actions using Excel Add-in. However, the overhead of installing and updating the Add-in periodically on your machine is an overhead and a time consuming task, besides being a challenge in terms of performance. Using the Bulk Actions, you can directly upload the entities to ICM, thus eliminating the dependency on a third party application such as Excel Add-in. When uploaded, these entities become part of the ICM workflow and can be managed within ICM itself.

Feature Highlights: 

• Optimal use of APIs and parallel processing for improved performance, thus allowing multiple users to add multiple batches of files simultaneously 
• Eliminates the need of using a third party application such as Excel Add-in to upload entities in bulk
• Ability to select Attributes from ICM user interface (which is not possible when using Excel Add-in)
• Ability to select an already existing Template if its not selected already
• Access control by providing visibility to the tile only to users with Manage privileges
• Ability to view error logs and records that succeeded or failed validation

The Bulk Action tile enables you to:

• Update Existing Entities
• Add Batch
• View the status of batches that are already added 

To perform Bulk Actions: 

1. Click Bulk Actions tile on the Dashboard. The Bulk Action Management page opens. 
2. Click Update Existing on the Bulk Action Management page. The Update page opens and you can: 
   • Download the the existing status and error files of a batch or add a new batch
   • Update the existing Agreements by adding Amendments using the Update Existing tile
   • Make changes to the Agreement that is in Executed state (signed by both internal and external parties). To make changes to an executed Agreement you must add an Amendment to it
   • You must have a Saved Search created before you can update any entity

To add Amendments 

1. Click Update Existing on the Bulk Action Management page. The Update page opens. 
2. Perform the following actions on this page and click Next.
   • Bulk Upload Action: Select Add Amendments from this drop-down. This helps in adding an Amendment to an existing Agreement. You can add Amendments only to Agreements in Executed state.
   • Saved Search: Select the Saved Search from this drop-down. This drop-down shows all the Saved Searches created by the logged on user and the global Saved Searches.For example, select the Saved Search as Bulk Action Feature
   • Contract Type Name: Select the Contract Type name from this drop-down. For example, select ICMAutomationBasicAgreement. The user can view the only those Contract Types that are associated with the Saved Search and to which the user has access.
3. Select the Attributes from the Available Attribute list and move to the Selected Attribute column to be displayed in the workbook you generate. For example, Effective Date, Expiry Date, and so on.
4. Click Generate Workbook. This generates the workbook with the Attributes selected. 
5. Open the Excel workbook that is downloaded and saved to your local drive. This workbook contains information about the selected Attributes and Contract Type. The file name of this workbook is same as the Contract Type that you selected. 
6. Click the Enable Editing button on the Excel workbook to make changes as required. For example, changing the Expiry Date for Agreements.
7. Click Save to save your edits. 
8. Click the Add Batch  icon on the Bulk Action Management page. This opens the Add Batch window and you can upload the edited Excel workbook to ICM.
9. Enter the Batch Name. For example, AutomationAgreementsDec2018.
10. 'C'lick the Choose File button next to the Data File field to select and upload the workbook file to ICM.
11. Click the Choose File button next to the Attached Zip File field to select and upload all the records for the batch to ICM. The maximum size of the zip file supported is 100 MB. 
12. Click the Add button. The Excel workbook is uploaded to ICM with a status of Added to Queue. This batch is added to the queue for automatic validation.

When ICM starts processing the batch, the status of the batch changes to In Progress. ICM validates the accuracy of the records in the batch while processing and the records are processed.

While processing the batch, every record is validated for: 

• Correct data type for all Attributes being uploaded
• Selected Template if any is correctly added
• Files specified in the workbook are available in the uploaded zip file
• Agreements of the selected Contract Types are in Executed state

13. Click the on the Bulk Action Management page to refresh this page and view the status of the batch you uploaded. 

When the batch is successfully uploaded, the status changes to Completed.