I want to group together common metrics/dimensions in my Explores.

Description: What is it?

I want to be able to add dimension_groups or metric_groups to my Explores.

These groups would appear in Lightdash in my Explore and override the default flat-list of dimensions and metrics in the sidebar.

e.g. user_name, user_country, user_age, user_gender are all grouped together in a drop down group called user demographics

Problem: What problem does this solve?

It’s hard to navigate through all of the metrics + dimensions in an Explore and know which are related to each other (or even relevant!)

What: Roughly, what does this look like in the product?

In your YAML, you’d write:

columns:
  - name: user_id
    meta:
      dimension:
        group_label: "User attributes"
      metrics:
        count_distinct_user_ids:
          type: count_distinct
          group_label: "User attributes"

• You would define dimension/metric groups in your YAML file, then these would appear in the sidebar as a toggle-list.
• You can search for these groups
• If I have a date/timestamp toggled dimension, it is still a toggle inside of the group toggle (basically, toggles can be nested - but only for dates)
• a column can only be included in a single group (not many groups)

Wireframe here: https://www.figma.com/proto/Mhuwki1Bj1akQIwPyr1gWw/Lightdash-product?node-id=5533%3A89295&scaling=min-zoom&page-id=5438%3A86217&starting-point-node-id=5533%3A89295&show-proto-sidebar=1 Hi-fidelity designs coming soon, but first step is to add the groups in, similar to how we deal with date and time groups.

[hamzahc1]

Had another request from a user on a call yesterday around them wanting to be able to group common metrics together in the explore view. Their idea was that they should be able to group the ones they want together and scan through that way.

[PriPatel]

@TuringLovesDeathMetal We’re in agreement on this wireframe. Hi-fidelity designs coming soon but we have enough for an engineer to get started on a POC at least! We should start off by visually grouping items in the same way we group date/time dimensions!

I’ll update the description of this ticket and remove the design tag from this.