iMIS Analytics is a sophisticated product that creates and maintains a robust data warehouse and a powerful OLAP cube in a special analysis database. Most of the product is invisible to you, however, working behind the scenes. If you are using the recommended ProClarity Professional viewer to analyze the data in the cube, your main exposure to the product is through the Analytics Briefing Book.
The Briefing Book contains many predefined views of your iMIS data, but sometimes you will want to see information that is not available in one of the predefined views. In these situations, you will want to use the following special features of ProClarity Professional (see your ProClarity Professional tutorial to learn more about these features):
■ drill-downs
displays more granular details of a chart
When viewing any chart, you can drill down to more granular data for a particular data point by left-clicking the data point. You can also "cross-drill" to other closely related data in a background hierarchy by right-clicking the data point and choosing the hierarchy into which you want to drill-down.
■ Setup Panel
creates custom views of your iMIS data
To define your own custom views, you use the Setup Panel to either modify an existing view in the Briefing Book, or to define an entirely new view.