This page will take you through the Side Navigation menu and how to quickly navigate to key K pages and features. To understand what each feature does and how they work together, see K Features.
About the Side Navigation menu
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Home: Your personal view that includes your personalised Feed and lets you quickly access data assets that you follow
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Search: Google-like search with custom filters
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Explore: Search through different asset types
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Insights: Available to Data Managers and Data Governance users to view tailored Dashboards
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Applications: Purpose-built tools within K: Ask K (data Q&A), Code Search (search source code), Impact Assessment (upstream/downstream impact), and Import Bulk Edit (bulk changes via Excel templates).
Inventory
This section to quickly search through the range of Collections that help you manage your data. These include:
My Workspace
This section helps you quickly access data assets or previous actions that you have used or performed
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Filters: Access past saved search filter settings
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Assets that you have used, assigned or contributed to
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Alerts: Schedule searches/filters to deliver results automatically by email
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Actions: Bulk actions you have saved, scheduled or actioned
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Jobs: View previous jobs (e.g. extracts) you have triggered in the K platform
Other pages
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History: View pages that you have visited
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Settings: Available to Data Governance Managers and K Admin users to manage K Platform Settings
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User Profile: Customise your own settings
Key Pages at a Glance
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Your personal starting point in K and keeps you informed of recent changes relevant to you and a quick way to access data assets that you follow. |
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Commonly accessed via the Search page, the source of knowledge for any data asset. Key tabs include: Overview, Usage, and Quality. |
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Tailored dashboards for Data Managers and Data Governance users. Dashboards include Usage Insights, Complexity Insights, Governance Insights, Data Quality, Issue Dashboard, Data Load Dashboard, and the Data Owner & Steward Dashboard. Note: Business Users and Data Workers do not see this section. |
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K's Search & Filters function makes finding data as easy as searching Google. You can search across all asset types — tables, reports, dashboards, pipelines, code, and more. |
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Data Applications |
Purpose-built tools within K: Code Search (search source code), Impact Assessment (automatically assess upstream/downstream impact), and Import Bulk Edit (bulk changes via importing Excel templates). |
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Access via your avatar icon — update preferences, manage linked accounts, configure your K Daily Briefing, and review your K access level. |