Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. SAS ABM Survey Kit A Sample Usage Scenario: Collecting Group Assignment Values

Problem: You have a Resource Account. There are 10 people in Manufacturing. You want to collect the # of Hours each of them spent for different activities. For privacy reasons, you want each worker to be able to login to his own personal survey forms and enter his hours. Solution: All you do is create a Manufacturing Group (consisting of the 10 workers) and assign it to the Resource Account. ASK will distribute your Resource accordingly. Basically, the final Driver Quantity for each activity will be the sum total of the hours entered by each Manufacturing Group member.

Login as Admin. Notice the ASK version on the bottom of the screen. Group Assignment feature is available in version or higher.

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We create the Manufacturing Group and define the 10 User Members.

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Assign Owner

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Each owner will receive separate containing the ASK web link ( in this example). The will include his/her individual user id and password to login to ASK.

Jim Smith (one of the Manufacturing Group users) logs in.

Jim entered the # of Hours he spent for different Manufacturing Activities.

Susan Jones (another Manufacturing Group user) also logs in.

Susan entered her # of Hours spent for different Manufacturing Activities.

Let’s check the back-end Staging Dataset. Look at the highlighted observations on the DriverQuantityFixed variable. 450’s = Jim’s Hours (300’s) + Susan’s Hours (150’s).

Wait a minute: There are 8 other people who have not entered their hours! So you can’t just upload the Assignment table to your model now. Go to the next final slide. You’ll be happy to know that Group Assignment feature is integrated with ASK Status Monitoring System.

ASK monitors every Survey status. You can easily tell you are not ready to update your Model yet. Only Jim Smith and Susan Jones have completed their surveys (as indicated by the blue icons).

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