Category
View Builder
Product Version
8.0
Option to change the default field type of numeric field on import
Idea Logged
I would like to add a configuration option to allow the default import behavior of a numeric field to be changed. Currently these default to metric fields instead of any other type.
Normally the most columns are dimension values and you would have only a small portion of metrics. When you create a view on a datawarehouse you always have a date dimension ex. year will automatically be set to a metric and I have to go in and change it to dimension and set the format. In a date dimension you sometimes also have different flags (0/1) like holiday or working day, last day in month/quarter/year, day and month number etc. All of these will be set to numeric because Yellowfin assumes that you want to aggregate by sum.
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