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Overview
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Once you are editing a view you will be able to edit a number of options within the view.
View Options
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Name | Provide a Business Name for the View, which will be used to identify it during the Report Building process. |
Business Description | Provide a Business Description for the View, which will help the Report Writer understand the intended use and contents of the View. |
Technical Description | Provide a Technical Description for the View, which will help Administrators understand the design and purpose of the View. |
Audience | Provide an Audience Description to help identify who the View was designed for. |
View Category | Select a View Category. View Categories define which Field Categories are available in the second step of the builder. |
Performance
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Default Cache Period (Hours) | Used to store queried data in a cache and reused by multiple report users. If the data in your source system is not time sensitive then you can set the cache time to be high and limit the impact of report users on the source system. |
View Row Limit | You can set the maximum row to be returned for any report written from this view. |
Optimise View | When enabled this will mean that Yellowfin will only include tables in report SQL that are being used within the report, or are set to Mandatory. |
Filter Text Suggestions | If enabled, this will allow certain fields to use the 'Filter Text Suggestions' functionality. See Field Access & UsageSettings for more information. |
View Security
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Unsecure | All users with functional access to the database can write reports against this view. |
Edit restricted | Only defined users will be able to create a report using this view. All other users will be able to read the reports that have been created by authorised users. |
Restricted | Only defined users can read and/or write reports from data in this view. |
Note: these options do not control who can edit the view itself, they only control the Report Builder access to the view.
Assigning Security
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