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Process Settings

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Process Settings hold process-wide configuration that simulation and analytics use: named constants you can reference, and processing time overrides for activities whose real duration differs from the data. Everything here applies to the whole model, not to a single element. You can try them on your own model with a free trial.

ProcessMind process settings screen

What you can configure

  • Constants — reusable values such as SLA thresholds, costs, or business rules. Each constant has a type: Number, Text, Boolean, Duration, or Date/Time, and settings are organized into groups (for example General).
  • Processing time overrides — per-activity values that replace the auto-estimated processing time: useful when you know an activity takes longer or shorter than the statistical estimate. They live in a dedicated Processing Time Overrides section.

Managing settings

  1. Open the process you are working on, then click the Settings icon in the left rail — its tooltip reads Process Settings.
  2. Edit a setting inline under its group — number, text, boolean, duration, and date/time settings each have their own control. Remove setting (trash icon) deletes one.
  3. Add setting opens a small form with a Setting Name and a Type (Number, Text, Boolean, Duration, Date/Time); Save adds the setting.
  4. In Processing Time Overrides, type a value per activity — leave a row on Auto to keep the estimate — pick a unit (ms, sec, min, hr), and press Enter or click away to save. Clear override removes an override again.

Changes save as you work; new simulation runs and analyses use the updated values.

How they affect simulation

When you run a simulation, the engine combines your process settings with the resource pools and distributions configured in the simulation itself. Overriding processing times at the process level is a fast way to model “what if” scenarios (for example, “what if every approval takes half as long?”) without editing each activity.

Settings vs. simulation configuration

Process settings are separate from the simulation configuration, which controls how a specific simulation run behaves. See also AI-Assisted Simulation to generate parameters automatically.

Next: put your settings to work in Running a Simulation.

Frequently asked questions

When you know an activity's real duration differs from the estimate: for example a manual approval that always takes two days, or a step whose recorded times are unreliable. Simulation and analysis then use your value instead of the estimate.

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