{"id":11429,"date":"2021-12-23T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage4.performancescoring.net\/kb\/?p=11429"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:59:44","slug":"scale-objectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/?p=11429","title":{"rendered":"Scale Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By default, SecureDB uses numeric Objectives. That is a goal value (the number you&#8217;re trying to meet or exceed) and the current value (the amount you&#8217;ve achieved so far). That works great if your Objective was X number of widgets made per month. What if your Objective was a little more subjective, like percent complete of a Project? That&#8217;s what Scale Objectives are for. Here&#8217;s how to use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Create or Edit an Objective<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From the left-hand navigation, go to <strong>Administration <\/strong>>> <strong>Manage Objectives<\/strong>. Click the Edit button next to the Objective you want to edit or click <strong>Add Objective<\/strong> to create a new one, as you <a href=\"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/?p=11473\">normally would<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Select Scale<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the top, you&#8217;ll see two options: Numeric (the default) and Scale.  Select <strong>Scale<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/edit-scale-objectives-1024x416.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13983\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Before &amp; After<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/objective-update-numeric.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11431\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you then went to look at how that Objective looks, you&#8217;ll find it now has a sliding scale you can use which has increments of 5 between 0% and 200%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/objective-update-scale.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11430\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The slider also denotes visually that this is more of a scale than a hard numeric value. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, uses numeric . That is a goal value (the number you&#8217;re trying to meet or exceed) and the current value (the amount you&#8217;ve achieved so far). That works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_helpful_status":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[16,34],"class_list":["post-11429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-objectives","tag-objectives","tag-projects"],"wps_subtitle":"What if your objective was a little more subjective, like percent complete of a project?  That\u2019s what Scale Objectives are for.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19939,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions\/19939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}