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