Subject Areas Overview

This topic describes how subject areas work.

A subject area is a grouping of information pieces pulled from your transactional database that relate to each other in a particular context. Examples of context are permits, inspections, plan reviews, planning applications, and so on. These contexts correlate to key aspects of your business transactions, and are designed to provide answers to questions about how well things are going. Prebuilt subject areas come right out of the box to answer key business questions.

Any information your organization tracks can be grouped into a subject area, then used to build analytics. All you have to do is drag columns from your subject area to your analytics editor and you have an analytic. You can edit prebuilt analytics the same way, by adding or removing columns from your subject area. When you edit prebuilt analytics, don't forget to make a copy and give it your own name.