Usability enhancements
Usability enhancements are those enhancements that can significantly improve the overall user experience when interacting with the data model. In order to ensure a successful handoff and adoption of the work you have done, it is important to not overlook these rather basic improvements.
In this section, we are going to cover the following usability enhancements:
- Hiding tables and columns
- Renaming tables and columns
- Changing the default summarization property
- Displaying one column but sorting by another
- Setting the data category of fields
- Creating hierarchies
Let's begin by considering how to hide tables and columns.
Hiding tables and columns
Some tables are available in the data model simply in a support capacity and would never be used in a report. For example, you may have a table to support many-to-many relationships, weighted allocation, or even dynamic security. Likewise, some columns are necessary for creating relationships in the data model but would...
