How to switch between metadata and sample data

Switching Between Metadata and Sample Data

1. Overview

1.1 Application scenario

When creating a dashboard, users can view the metadata information of each chart in the dashboard. The metadata can help users understand the data so that they can process and transform the useful data.

1.2 Function

Data Mode

Description

Metadata

Data describing the data, mainly information describing the attributes of the data

Sample data

Information about the visualised data displayed when creating a dashboard

Users can directly view the metadata information bound in each chart when making dashboards.

2. Switch data mode

You can directly select the metadata in the data mode on the top toolbar of the dashboard, and the default is sample data.

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•Display of different data types in different modes

oSample Data:

https://www.vividime.com/help/10.2/en/datamodesampledata.png

oMetadata

https://www.vividime.com/help/10.2/en/datamodemetadata.png

Metadata display for text types (character, string): "x"/"xxxxxxxxxx"

Metadata for datetime types (date, time, timestamp) shows: current time

Metadata for boolean types shows: true

Metadata for numeric types (byte, integer, short, long, float, double) shows: 99/999/999.99

•Display of graph axes in different modes

oSample data

https://www.vividime.com/help/10.2/en/datamodechartsampledata.png

oMetadata

https://www.vividime.com/help/10.2/en/datamodechartmetadata.png

Axes bound to numeric data are displayed in metadata mode: 0-1000.

Pie chart metadata mode are displayed as: 100%.

3. Merge cells in metadata

After the table and pivot component enters the metadata mode, you can Merge Cells by selecting multiple cells and right clicking on them.

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https://www.vividime.com/help/10.2/en/hmfile_hash_5cb28242.png

4. Highlight in Metadata Mode

In the metadata mode, the highlighted cells in the table, pivot, and freestyle table components can be quickly opened by clicking the highlight iconhttps://www.vividime.com/help/10.2/en/highlight.png in the lower left corner.