Overview
Recommendations are an important element within Anodot Cost, and reflect potential savings and actionable suggestions to save waste.
Anodot provides several types of recommendations. Some are provided by the CSP, others are based on the analysis done by Anodot.
The new Waste Detector interface enables
- Filtering the recommendations by preset status filters or custom filters
- Easy slice and dice of the potential savings according to a number of dimensions, such as service, region, tags and many more.
- You can arrange the most relevant dimensions to be presented and hide less relevant ones
- The information is sorted according to the potential savings or the number of recommendations
- Easy slice and dice of your completed recommendations (Previously referred to as the history) using similar or other dimensions
- Tracking your waste target compliance in a designated period
Recommendation life-cycle
The recommendation life-cycle has two properties, an Anodot managed status, which is the automated part, and a manual status which is managed by the user.
| Status | Description | Update Type |
| Open | Ready for users to review and act upon | Automatic |
| Completed |
A recommendation that was performed. When the resource has changed in a different manner. A close reason indication will be added to such a recommendation. |
Automatic |
| Done |
Marked by a user a Done. 'Done' recommendations will be calculated into the 'Actual Savings" |
Manual |
| Excluded |
Marked by a user as excluded. 'Excluded' recommendations will be removed from the 'potential savings' |
Manual |
Waste Detector Views
Waste Map
- View the dimensions most relevant to you by adding them to the main display, hide less relevant dimensions.
- Use the built in heatmap to see the recommendations grouped by their total sum or count.
- Click on an item in the heatmap to filter by that item
- The summary line sums the total Potential savings and Actual savings based on your filters
Status Filters
Use the status preset filters to get things done.
- Potential Savings - That's your To-Do list. These are the Open recommendations that need to be worked on.
- Actual Savings - That's your done list. These are the automatically completed or manually marked as done items. These are your historical savings.
- Excluded - That's your deferred list. All the items you have marked for exclusion for any reason.
- User Actions - These are the items touched by anyone, either to mark as done, or as excluded.
- Custom Settings - Choose other combinations based on your needs.
Additional filters
- Use the additional filters to filter by any combination of properties, including tags and values
Recommendation List
The recommendations are listed below based on your filters
Click the 'Columns' button to choose the properties you wish to view in the recommendation table
Recommendation Details
Multiple recommendations per resource
Some resources might have more than one recommendation relevant to them. In such cases, the information will be highlighted on that resource, and allow you to filter the recommendations on that resource
How to apply the recommendation
Copy the command to your own scripts to apply the recommendation in your environment
User Actions on a Recommendation
- Mark the recommendation as 'Done' or 'Excluded'
- Star it for future filtering
- Add a comment
- Add a label
- Go to the preferences page to disable this recommendation type altogether
Additional features:
- Savings Tracker: Click on the following icon to see all of your savings (recommendations with status 'done' or 'completed')
- Creating Views: After applying your unique filters, simply click the following icon to save the filtered view for future use instead of creating it every time. In addition, you can set a custom view as a default view of the Waste Detector page.
- Save as a panel: Click on the following icon to save it as a dashboard panel.