Fields

Introduction

With Data Manager you can edit the fields displayed in your process app. This enables you to customize the dashboards by adapting them to the terminology used in your organization.

Editing fields

Follow these steps to edit a field.

1. Select field you want to edit.
2. Edit the Field name as desired.
3. Select Save.

See the illustration below for an example.

Currency format

For currency fields you can also change the currency format. See the illustration below for an example.

This is a display setting, it does not convert the field value.

Edit field dialog

Below is a description of the elements of the Edit field dialog.

Element	Description
Field name	The display name of the field.
Linked to	The internal database name of the field.
Type	The data type of the field.
Currency*	A drop down combo box containing all available currency formats.

* Currency is only available for monetary fields.

Hiding and showing fields

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.