Connections

Connections illustrates all internal and external activity across the ecosystem. Workspace Admins and Workspace Managers can access Connections from the Workspace Dashboard by clicking the left sidebar and then clicking Connections.

• – Global Outcomes (GOs) illustrate activity across multiple Workspaces.
• – Shared Outcomes (SOs) and Shared Indicators (SIs) illustrate activity that is specific to your Workspace.
• – Connections Reports shows the reports that have been made using Connections for Global Outcomes, Shared Outcomes, and Shared Indicators.

Connections is most frequently used for Shared Outcomes, so the instructions below specifically mention SOs but can be applied to both GOs and SIs.

First, click on ‘Connections’ in the sidebar on the left of the Workspace Dashboard. The connections will then appear in Mindmap view. On the right-hand side, you will find several options that allow you to:

• 1. Choose the type of view “Flower” or “Spider”
• 2. ‘Mark as favourite’, ‘Generate a PDF document’ and ‘View reports’, which takes you to the report centre where you can also generate a report from Connections based on the content that you have filtered.
• 3. Choose to see which Workspaces or Plans are connected. You can choose both, which will help you to see clearly the link between the SO and the plan/workspace that the OAI that addresses it sits in.
• 4. Filter by Lens Category, Workspace, Plans, Node Category (OAI), Progress, Teams and Levels.
• 5. Take screenshots.
• 6. Select any GOs, SOs and SIs for a quick view of all the activity linked to that particular GOs, SOs or SIs.