How Is Data Indexed?

When you search or visualize data from the Home page, your results are determined by what information has been indexed.

The system runs a process to index your saved objects, workbook content, and dataset column information. The indexing process also updates the index file to reflect any objects, workbooks, or datasets that you deleted from your system so that these items are no longer displayed in your search results.

For all datasets, the column metadata is indexed. For example, column name, the data type used in the column, aggregation type, and so on. Column data is indexed for Excel spreadsheet, CSV, and TXT dataset columns with 1,000 or fewer distinct rows. Note that no database column data is indexed and therefore that data isn’t available in your search results.