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Acceptance Criteria Data Structure

View Acceptance Criteria field information. The fields are listed by tab in alphabetical order.

Acceptance Criteria Tab

Field	Description
Minimum Acceptance Score	Select the score that the schedule must attain in order to be accepted. You can select a number between 0 and 100. Touchstone compares an uploaded schedule to the acceptance criteria metrics and scores the schedule based on the metric influence selector values. If the score is equal to or greater than the score listed here, the schedule passes and Touchstone displays Accepted in the Submittals view Status column. If the score is less than the score listed here, Touchstone displays Rejected in the Submittals Status column and the submitter can view a report of the issues that caused the schedule to fail. Note: No matter whether or not the schedule passes or fails, the submitter and reviewer can view a report of the issue found by the metric in the submitted schedule.
Remarks	Use this field to add any additional information or description about the score or the appropriate use of this acceptance criteria.
Scoring Method	Select the method you want Touchstone to use to evaluate metrics used for calculating the score. Average of Metrics: With metric-base scoring, Touchstone calculates the score using an average of the metric scores. Metric-based scoring allows incremental improvements to tasks to be reflected in the overall score. The metric-based method typically produces higher scores, as a single task needs to fail in multiple areas simultaneously in order to receive a very low score. Submittal Fails if One Metric Fails: This method calculates the score on a per-record basis and the final score is an average of the per-record scores. This places a premium on absolute compliance with the assigned metrics. The breach of any single metric on a task prevents those tasks from receiving a "passing grade." This is the default setting.
Folder	This is the folder where the metric is located.
Metric	This is the name of the metric.
Influence Selector / Influence Value	Use the influence Selector to indicate how one metric counts towards the overall score for a group of metrics. You can choose values on a +/- 10-point sliding scale. The higher the value, the more impact the metric in question has on the score. By default, metric selectors are set to the midpoint on the scale which has no impact on the score. This allows you to include metrics for reporting purposes. Move the Influence Selector slider or enter a value in the Influence Value field to adjust the value of each metric. When you adjust the Influence Selector, the Influence Value changes accordingly and vice versa. For each condition that the schedule meets, it accumulates a point value, whether the point value is negative or positive. The score is then normalized on a scale of 0 to 100 and compared to the Minimum Acceptance Score.

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Acceptance Criteria Data Structure

View Acceptance Criteria field information. The fields are listed by tab in alphabetical order.

Acceptance Criteria Tab

Field	Description
Minimum Acceptance Score	Select the score that the schedule must attain in order to be accepted. You can select a number between 0 and 100. Touchstone compares an uploaded schedule to the acceptance criteria metrics and scores the schedule based on the metric influence selector values. If the score is equal to or greater than the score listed here, the schedule passes and Touchstone displays Accepted in the Submittals view Status column. If the score is less than the score listed here, Touchstone displays Rejected in the Submittals Status column and the submitter can view a report of the issues that caused the schedule to fail. Note: No matter whether or not the schedule passes or fails, the submitter and reviewer can view a report of the issue found by the metric in the submitted schedule.
Remarks	Use this field to add any additional information or description about the score or the appropriate use of this acceptance criteria.
Scoring Method	Select the method you want Touchstone to use to evaluate metrics used for calculating the score. Average of Metrics: With metric-base scoring, Touchstone calculates the score using an average of the metric scores. Metric-based scoring allows incremental improvements to tasks to be reflected in the overall score. The metric-based method typically produces higher scores, as a single task needs to fail in multiple areas simultaneously in order to receive a very low score. Submittal Fails if One Metric Fails: This method calculates the score on a per-record basis and the final score is an average of the per-record scores. This places a premium on absolute compliance with the assigned metrics. The breach of any single metric on a task prevents those tasks from receiving a "passing grade." This is the default setting.
Folder	This is the folder where the metric is located.
Metric	This is the name of the metric.
Influence Selector / Influence Value	Use the influence Selector to indicate how one metric counts towards the overall score for a group of metrics. You can choose values on a +/- 10-point sliding scale. The higher the value, the more impact the metric in question has on the score. By default, metric selectors are set to the midpoint on the scale which has no impact on the score. This allows you to include metrics for reporting purposes. Move the Influence Selector slider or enter a value in the Influence Value field to adjust the value of each metric. When you adjust the Influence Selector, the Influence Value changes accordingly and vice versa. For each condition that the schedule meets, it accumulates a point value, whether the point value is negative or positive. The score is then normalized on a scale of 0 to 100 and compared to the Minimum Acceptance Score.