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Navigating K

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

  • Search: Google-like search with custom filters

  • Explore: Search through different asset types

  • Insights: Available to Data Managers and Data Governance users to view tailored Dashboards

  • 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:

  • Glossary

  • Data Domains

  • Data Governance / Data Management collections

  • Knowledge

  • Lists

My Workspace

This section helps you quickly access data assets or previous actions that you have used or performed

  • Filters: Access past saved search filter settings

  • Assets that you have used, assigned or contributed to

  • Alerts: Schedule searches/filters to deliver results automatically by email

  • Actions: Bulk actions you have saved, scheduled or actioned

  • Jobs: View previous jobs (e.g. extracts) you have triggered in the K platform

Other pages

  • History: View pages that you have visited

  • Settings: Available to Data Governance Managers and K Admin users to manage K Platform Settings

  • User Profile: Customise your own settings


Key Pages at a Glance

Page

Overview

Home Page

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.

Data Profile Page

Commonly accessed via the Search page, the source of knowledge for any data asset. Key tabs include: Overview, Usage, and Quality.

Dashboards and Insights

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.

Search & Filters

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.

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).

Profile Settings

Access via your avatar icon — update preferences, manage linked accounts, configure your K Daily Briefing, and review your K access level.