12.2. Choosing suggested helping and hindering factors

Your template may have suggested helping and hindering factors assigned to it. They may be standard on your template or you can add them to the abacus yourself in the customise option see 13.13 Add Suggested helping and hindering factors

If suggested factors are assigned to your abacus, then you will see a ‘lightning bolt’ icon on the analyse factors page

Clicking this icon will bring up suggested helping and hindering factors which have been added in the customise option which can be inserted. It will also contain any RAG rated statements which have been rated in the review criteria section. (see 12.1 Using RAG rated criteria). Green rated statements will appear in the helping factors list, red and amber rated statements in the hindering factors list.

You can choose a helping factor from the drop down list and click insert to automatically insert it.

Alternatively, you can insert all of the suggested helping factors at once. This will, however, replace all helping factors which you currently have and will lose any of your action plans which have been assigned to that factor. A warning message will be displayed advising you of this though.

All of the suggested helping factors will be automatically inserted.

The process can be repeated for hindering factors, just select the lightning bolt icon for a hindering factor to insert them using the same steps as above.