Data manager

Introduction

Data Manager enables you to adapt the data used in your process app based on custom data understanding and to create new KPI's. With Data Manager you can edit data fields and add or edit metrics to change the display names used in your app as well as toggling their visibility.

Data Manager is integrated in the dashboard editor. See Working with the dashboard editor.

Opening Data manager

Select the Data manager button in the upper right corner of the dashboard editor to open Data manager. The Data manager panel is displayed, showing all data fields and metrics for each table available in your process app. See the illustration below for an example.

The Data manager button is a toggle button. If the Data manager panel is displayed, selectthe Data manager button again to hide the Data manager panel.

Searching Available Fields and Metrics

To easily find a particular field or metric, you can search for available fields and metrics.

Follow this step to search for available fields and metrics.

Start typing the name of the field or metric you want to find in the Search... field.

See the illustration below for an example.

You can also type a part of the name or a word that is in the name of the field or metric.

Expanding or collapsing the list of fields and metrics

Select ...	to ...
	expand all tables and display all the fields and metrics available.
	collapse all tables and hide all the available fields and metrics.
	expand the table and display the content.
	collapse the table and hide the content.

Hiding or showing empty fields

The Show empty fields option enables you to show or hide fields for which your dataset does not contain any data.

Show empty fields is a toggle option. If you select Show empty fields, the option will be changed to Hide empty fields and vice versa.

By default, Show empty fields is selected, which means that empty fields are displayed in the list.