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:

  1. Hiding tables and columns
  2. Renaming tables and columns
  3. Changing the default summarization property
  4. How to display one column but sort by another
  5. Setting the data category of fields
  6. How to create hierarchies

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