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Drill-ins let you inspect what contributes to a driver without leaving the table. Use them when you want to trace a formula, understand a variance, or show the rows and drivers behind a modeled number.

How to use drill-ins

1

Choose a driver

In a driver table, hover over a driver row that can be expanded. A caret appears next to eligible rows.
2

Open inputs

Click the caret next to the driver name, or right-click the driver and select Show inputs. You can also press ⌘⏎ (Ctrl+Enter on Windows) on the selected row.
3

Review the inputs

The driver’s inputs appear as nested child rows. Drilling into dimensional or database-backed drivers expands segment and object sub-rows, and you can keep drilling into eligible child rows.
4

Close inputs

Click the caret again, right-click the driver and select Hide inputs, or press ⌘⏎ (Ctrl+Enter on Windows) again.
Drill-ins support multiple levels of depth. Expand an input line further to inspect its dependencies.
Driver table row expanded to show drill-in inputs

Drill-in access

Drill-ins respect the block-level Can drill in access rule. For current access rules, see Permissions and Roles and access.

Open detail view

Use Open detail view or press ⌘⇧⏎ (Ctrl+Shift+Enter on Windows) to open the details pane for the selected row. The details pane shows Overview, Used By, and Plans tabs when available. See Driver details pane for more detail.

Important notes

Drill-ins are saved per user

Expanding drill-ins affects your own view. Other users do not see the expanded state unless they expand the row themselves.

Want others to see a breakdown?

If you want other users to view the same rows, add selected drill-in drivers to the block from the row context menu. This makes those driver lines visible in the block instead of depending on each user’s expanded drill-in state.

Drill-in lines have a striped background

Stripes indicate drill-in lines are dynamically generated and will not appear for other users unless expanded.
Drag-and-drop reordering and undo/redo are not supported for drill-in lines.

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