Overview area

The overview area is displayed when you are viewing an Exploration View or a list. Use the overview area as a convenient place to quickly explore and change the contents of the Exploration View or list.

For Exploration Views, the overview area displays the Rows, Columns, and Context areas. You populate the Exploration View with data by adding items from the data source to these areas. For example, you can place a Department dimension in the rows and a Source dimension in the columns. The items that you place in the context area are used to filter the values. For example, you can filter the Exploration View to display data for a specific year by selecting a year in the Time dimension. Each box in the rows, columns, and context area represents a set of data in the data source.