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Explore is a quick way to explore data in your semantic layer either by point and click or with an AI agent. Unlike workbooks, Explore doesn’t require you to create a workbook—you can start exploring immediately from a dashboard, Analytics Chat, or any semantic view. Explore leverages your data model definitions, ensuring that all queries use consistent metrics, respect access control policies, and benefit from pre-aggregations for fast performance.

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Using Explore

You can start exploring from three places in Cube:

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Exploring from Analytics Chat

When the AI agent returns a query result in Analytics Chat, click Explore to open that result in an exploration. This allows you to further analyze and visualize the data returned by the AI agent.

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Exploring from a published dashboard

Hover over a chart widget in a published dashboard, and click Explore. The exploration will use the same view and data that feeds into the visualization, giving you access to all measures and dimensions available in that view.

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Starting a new exploration from scratch

Navigate to the Explore page in the sidebar. From here, you can select any semantic view as the data source and start building visualizations from scratch.

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Explore functionality

The functionality in Explore is similar to when working with semantic views in workbooks. You can build visualizations, pivot tables, and tables by selecting measures and dimensions from your semantic views, apply filters, group and aggregate data. Explore state is also saved in the URL, making it easy to share your exploration with other users by simply copying and sharing the link.

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Saving explorations

You can save an exploration so you can return to it later without re-building your query.
  • Save — For an unsaved exploration, click Save to open the Save Exploration dialog. Give your exploration a name and click Save. The exploration is now persisted and appears in your workspace.
  • Save (existing) — After you modify a previously saved exploration, click Save to update it in place.
  • Save as — For a saved exploration, open the chevron menu next to Save and choose Save as… to create a copy under a new name.
You can also rename a saved exploration at any time by clicking its title in the header and typing a new name.

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Converting to a workbook

When you’re ready to build a more permanent analysis, you can convert your exploration to a workbook. Click Convert to workbook to create a new workbook with your exploration as its first tab.

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Copying to clipboard

You can copy an exploration to your clipboard and paste it as a new tab in any workbook. Click the chevron next to Convert to workbook and select Copy to Clipboard. Then navigate to the target workbook and press Cmd+V (macOS) or Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux) to paste the exploration as a new tab.