About views

A view is a logical collection of information that is derived from the records in project data sets.

For example, the original records in a data set may represent individual sales transactions. However, from those transaction records, you could derive:

A list of products
A list of customers
A summary of sales data grouped by year

Each of those could be a view.

All views are made up of attributes. Some attributes may be the physical attributes from a data set, while others may be calculated from the original data.

For example, for a list of products derived from a list of sales transactions, the product name comes directly from the data, while the total sales for that product is calculated from the individual sales records.

Views can optionally have predefined metrics, which are values calculated from view attributes using EQL expressions.

For example, for sales transaction data, a predefined metric might be the profit margin.