A Change Advisory Board (CAB) Status Map chart is a visual representation used by Change Advisory Boards in IT service management to track and manage changes to IT systems, software, or infrastructure within an organization. The CAB is responsible for assessing, prioritizing, and authorizing changes to minimize the impact on IT services and ensure that changes align with business objectives. Overall, a CAB Status Map chart serves as a valuable tool for Change Advisory Boards to monitor the progress of proposed changes, ensure that changes are properly reviewed and authorized, and minimize disruptions to IT services within an organization. It promotes transparency, collaboration, and effective decision-making in the change management process.

The CAB Status Map example below is displaying Active Changes.

Let's look at the Data and Chart options for this CAB Status Map chart. CAB Status Map charts utilize the Cab Meeting table, therefore the Data options will default to the Cab Meeting - cab_meeting table.

Conditions: Setting conditions allows you to query the table you are building the chart off of.

Record: Select the Record that the CAB Status Map chart will be displaying data from. This example is using the Network CAB record.

Order by: Determines how the CAB Status Map chart will be populated. This is example is ordering by Active - active changes. Order by can be set to CAB Manager, Locations, and State among other options.

Limit: The limit can be set to limit the amount of entries on the CAB Status Map chart.