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Manually setting your Objective Evaluations

By default, Objectives in ClearPoint are manually evaluated.  This means that you visit an Objective, and then qualitatively evaluate whether it is on track or behind.

However, some organizations prefer to automatically evaluate Objectives to ensure consistency across the organization. Objectives are unique in that their evaluation can “summarize” performance across different element types (even other objectives) in ClearPoint.

Note: If the Element is already automatically evaluated you can not update the status manually.

Updating status by inline editing on the Detail Page

Select **Scorecards & Elements** from the Control Panel\
Choose **Manage Elements**\
Open **Objectives**\
Select the **Objective** you are going to be working with, in this example, ‘Direct Routes’.\
Double-click on the **Status icon**\
Select a **Status Indicator** from the dropdown menu\
Click on the **green check mark** at the top of your screen to save your changes

Updating status from the Edit Element window

Select **Scorecards & Elements** from the Control Panel\
Choose **Manage Elements**\
Open **Objectives**\
Select the **Objective** you are going to be working with, in this example, ‘Direct Routes’.\
On the **Objective Detail Page**, click on the **edit Pencil icon**\
Select a **Status Indicator** from the **Status dropdown menu**\
Once you are done with your changes, click **Save**

Setting up your account for Automatic Objective Evaluation

The first step in configuring your account for Automatic Objective Evaluations is to set up the scores for your Status Indicators. This step only has to be done once, and is used to weight the scores in all of the evaluated Objectives in your account.

Click on **System Settings**\
Open **System Setup**\
Select **Status Indicators** under Standard Features\
A modal window showing all the Status Indicators in your account will appear\
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Click on the **edit Pencil icon** to open the menu for an indicator\
You can input the desired value in the **Score field**

Typical values are: \
Above Plan - Green - Score 3 \
Caution - Yellow - Score 2 \
Below Plan - Red - Score 1\
No information - Blue - Score 0\
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Once you are done with your configuration, click **Save**

Note: The most positive Status Indicator should have the highest score, and the most negative Status Indicator should have the lowest score.

Configuring an Objective for Automatic Evaluation

Once you have assigned values to your Status Indicators, you can set up your Objective Evaluations. There are two steps to this process:  First, you need to set up the Elements that this Objective Evaluation will be based upon (the linkages).  Then, you set up the rules for Evaluation (the evaluation criteria).

Select **Scorecards & Elements** from the Control Panel\
Choose **Manage Elements**\
Open **Objectives**\
Select the **Objective** you are going to be working with, in this example, ‘Direct Routes’.\
On the **Objective Detail Page**\
Click on the **edit Pencil icon**\
Navigate to the **Links tab**\
Mark the check box next to **Enable Automatic Evaluation**

To the far right of each **Linked Element**, fill in the **Weight field** with a number to indicate the importance of the linked element’s status in determining the objective’s status. The weights of all linked elements should add up to 100 (as in 100%).\
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If the weights do not add to 100, any remaining percentage will be factored into the score as zero. You can see if your assigned weights add up to 100 in the Total Weight field at the bottom of the window. The score based on these weights will also be shown below the list of links.

Click the "Enable Automatic Evaluation" field.

Understanding how evaluation criteria work

The system evaluates the objective by reading the evaluation criteria from top to bottom, and it stops at the first status where the criteria is met. The criteria that do match the current score are shown with green checks and the criteria that do not match are shown with red x’s.

In this example, if the Total Score is greater than or equal to 3, the objective will be ‘Above Target’; greater than or equal to 2, it will be ‘Caution’, etc. This can be adjusted based on how the statuses were scored in Admin Options.

Once you have enabled evaluations and set up the linkages, you can set the rules (Evaluation Criteria) for the Objective.

Automate Calculations & Evaluations - Setting Objective Evaluations