Hiding and showing fields

Reference for hiding and showing fields in Data Manager to control which fields appear in dashboard editor selectors.

With Data Manager you can hide fields that are available in your dataset but not used in your process app. A field that is set to hidden in Data Manager, will not be visible in selectors when editing dashboards using the dashboard editor. This is useful when you do not want to use these fields in a visualization, but do want to use them to compute metrics.

Note:

You can not hide a field that is used on a dashboard.

Follow these steps to hide a field.

1. Locate the field you want to hide.
2. Select the Hide field in app icon icon The field is set to hidden and the icon is changed to the Show field in app icon . If you select the icon, the field becomes visible again.