LAB-4-3A_2015-1080-Endoding
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>> We've seen how you can use Q&A
to type natural language questions
about your data.
But there are two other ways
that you can enhance the answers
that Q&A give to make it easier
for your users to understand
what they can and can't ask about.
So one of them is that
when you put your cursor
into this ask-a-question box,
you can actually pre-specify
some questions to give people
an idea of the sort of things
they can ask about.
So there are some of the box suggestions
that will come up
based on the measures
and the fields in your model.
But you can also go
and manually answer this.
So for example,
if I look in the settings options
for a particular dataset,
you'll see this option
for featured Q&A questions.
And this allows me type in the questions
that I want to appear on that list.
So you can see I've given some examples,
total defects in 2013,
and total defects,
reports, and the counter defects
by vendor.
So we'll get back to that Dashboard.
You'll see those are the first
two things that appear.
Well, these other ones
are based on other things
that people asked for,
or fields that have been poured out
for the model as I mentioned.
So that's one thing you can use
to create these featured questions
that make it easier
for people to pick up Q&A.
The other one is that you can actually
change the responses that Q&A gives.
And say actually here is a report page
that I've already created
that might help answer
particular questions.
So I've got a supplier
quality analysis report
here as an example.
This gives us a bit of an overview
about all of the different suppliers
we use,
and the number of defects they had,
the number of downtime,
et cetera, et cetera.
And I can filter this report page
based on a particular vendor.
If I drag the vendor field
on to this page level filter,
I have an option at the bottom
that says Require single selection.
And this is one of the things
that I need to do to allow me
to show this page
as results within Q&A.
So let me select something by default.
The other thing I can do
is on this Formatting tab,
under Page Information,
I can say right turn on Q&A.
And this actually prompts Q&A
to use this page as a response
if people ask particular questions.
And the questions they can ask then
are related to the name of this page.
So for example, now I could ask
for Supplier Quality report
for a particular supplier.
I can also add different names
if there are other ways
that people would refer to this.
So maybe this is supplier performance,
or vendor performance...
Those are other things
that people might ask for
to do with this data.
So I'm gonna save this again there.
And this time, when I go
back to my report,
sorry, back to my dashboard.
If I start asking about
the supplier quality report,
I can specify a particular vendor.
And now I'll get that
same report page here
as an answering Q&A.
And it's already pre-filtered
to just that particular
vendor shareholdings that I asked for.
And you can see the restatement
at the bottom specifying that.
So it's showing
the supplier quality report
where the vendor is solholdings.
And I can use those
aliases as well.
So I also refer to it
as the vendor performance
for solholdings.
And again, it's doing the same thing.
So it's interpreting
vendor's performance
as an alias for this report
and then filtering it down
to the particular vendor.
I can choose the different vendor names
to compare across these different types
and see the data filter down
to just the one that I'm interested in.
So I can use this
in a whole range of different ways.
Maybe I'll create these reports
that summarize a particular supplier,
or maybe I can do like
a customer-focused dashboard
that allows account managers
to pull up latest information
on that specific customer.
There's a whole range of
different ways that you might
think of to use this.
And a really easy way
to help people understand
and get the best answers of their data
just using natural language.