KPIs into BPA Suite

Hi
There was a confirmation in this Forum that KPIs can be linked with Process Models within BPA.
Link, Rules and KPI
Can anybody help me with some more details on this pl
Thanks & Regds
Ravisankar

Thanks Ashish,
I checked the charsets and tried to update the database charset to match it with BPA suite documentation. However, could not update it as the documentaton charset was not super set of database charaset.
However, after restarting the computer and database the issue got resolved.
Thanks again for your help,
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