Consuming Data Hub Analytics

The Resource Explorer in Data Hub serves the same purpose as File Explorer on Windows or Finder on Mac. The key difference is that you navigate “resources” instead of files. For this article, you may consider resources to be the different analytics types (reports, charts, dashboards) and the sub-components of those analytics, which we will discuss in time. If you’ve come from The Complete Guide to Modeling in Data Hub, you will know that Data Models are also “resources” within Data Hub.

Navigate the folder structure by clicking the expander icons and open the resources by double-clicking.

You can add a resource or folder to your Favorites folder by clicking the Favorites icon on the ellipsis menu.

Once a resource or folder is designated a favorite, the icon changes to show its favorite status.

The slice experience is identical between the two different views of the data. For Analyses resources, the slicers present at the top. Click the drop-down arrow for a given slicer to interact with it. You may also enter search criteria to filter the list of displayed members, as in the following image.

Depending on the slicer-type configured by the designed multi-select and range-slice options may be available to you.

You can create a drill-through resource by right-clicking an analysis table cell and selecting the Create Drill-through option.

Subtotals can be enabled and viewed for measures in both columns and rows. They are useful when you have created a "virtual" hierarchy in an analysis (by using items to create a pivot table). To view sub-totals, you will need to expand the columns and rows by clicking on the 4.

If your analysis or drill-through spans more than one screen, a screen icon appears, allowing you to specify which screen you want to view. This icon only appears if it is needed.

When clicked, a list of pages appears. You can select the screen you want to view by either clicking the screen number or entering the number in the text box at the bottom of the list. The currently selected screen has a circle around it.

You can click the Refresh icon in the ellipsis menu to confirm you are viewing the most recent version of the resource or folder.