I would like to have the possibility for a cube designer to provide a description per dimension. The dashboard designer would be given an help on the meaning of the data he is bringing in his report...
We have complex modelling inside Sisense and it would be great to be able to extend this with a data dictionary.
Sisense has already built the Usage Analytics Model, but it would be great to have an actual cube that incorporates the details of the model and data itself, that could be used to expose the reporting relationships and descriptions to business and technical users.
The data that is already available is:
* Name (hover over table in Data tab)
* Original Name (hover over table in Data tab)
* Schema (hover over table in Data tab)
* Provider (hover over table in Data tab)
* Tags (added via ellipses from table in Data tab)
* Description (added via ellipses from table in the Data tab)
* Name - column (hover over column in Data tab)
* Type - column (hover over column in Data tab)
* Description - column (added via ellipses in Data tab)
It would be good to be able to access the original name for the column as well.
Being able to export a listing of Sisense Tables and Fields and their corresponding data points as well as descriptions (i.e. the business meaning for a field) would mean that we could offer a simple tabular data dictionary to all our users.
Status changed:
New Idea
to Needs Info
Hi Gannon ,
Sisense does have built in data dictionary functionality. Can you clarify the missing functionality? Is it primarily the export capabilities?