Breadcrumb Navigation and Shareable Links in Analyze

Analyze windows open on top of each other — a workflow inside a project, a step inside that workflow, a table you opened to check a result. Two features make it easy to see where you are and get back out again: a breadcrumb in each window’s title, and a URL that follows what you are looking at, so any view can be bookmarked or pasted to a colleague.

The Breadcrumb

Windows that belong to a project show their ancestry as their title, in the window’s title bar:

My Project › Workflow › Nightly Load

Each part is called a segment, and they read left to right from the outermost container inwards:

1. The project — the project that owns what you are looking at.
2. The object type — Workflow, Table, Step, Dimension, or Data Editor.
3. The object itself — the current workflow, table, step, and so on. This last segment is where you already are, so it is not clickable.

Navigating With It

Select either of the first two segments to move up:

Segment	Tooltip	What It Does
The project name	Open project	Opens that project, or brings it to the front if it is already open
Workflow	Show all workflows	Opens the project on its Workflows list
Table	Show all tables	Opens the project on its Tables list
Step	Show all steps	Opens the project on its Steps list
Dimension	Show all dimensions	Opens the project on its Dimensions list
Data Editor	Show all data editors	Opens the project on its Data Editors list

The type segment is the quick way to reach a sibling: from one workflow, one click puts you on the full list of workflows in the same project, ready to open a different one.

Note

The window you came from stays open. Navigating with a breadcrumb brings the project to the front — it does not close what you were looking at, and you can return to it from the tab bar along the bottom of the screen.

Where Breadcrumbs Appear

• Workflow windows — the step grid for a standard workflow
• Visual Workflow Designer — the canvas view of an advanced workflow
• Table Explorer
• Step windows opened on their own
• Dimension hierarchy windows
• Data Editor windows

A step can belong to more than one workflow, so a step’s breadcrumb shows Project › Step › name rather than naming a single owning workflow.

Keyboard and Screen Reader Access

Clickable segments are ordinary controls: Tab moves onto them and Enter or Space activates the one that has focus, so you never need a mouse to move up the hierarchy. Each is announced as a button, the final segment is announced as the current page, and the › separators are skipped rather than read aloud.

Leaving a Data Editor With Unsaved Changes

The Data Editor is the one window that asks before a breadcrumb takes you away. If you have edits in progress, selecting a segment shows the Unsaved Changes prompt — Close Data Editor without saving changes? — with Close Editor to leave anyway. Cancel the prompt and you stay in the editor with your changes intact.

This is the same prompt the editor’s own Close button shows, so there is no route out of a Data Editor that discards work without asking.

Shareable Links

The address bar always names the window in front. Open a workflow and the URL becomes that workflow’s link; open a table and it becomes the table’s. That link is the unit you share.

To share what you are looking at, copy the URL from the browser address bar and send it. Anyone with access to that project opens the same view. Bookmark it and it still works later.

What Happens When Someone Opens the Link

Opening or refreshing a link restores the parent context, not just the one window. A link to a workflow reopens its project as well, so you arrive with the project available in the tab bar rather than with a single window floating on its own — the same place you would have reached by navigating there yourself.

Link Formats

Links are project-first: the project comes first, then the object inside it, separated by ~.

#p~my-project                        a project
#p~my-project~w~<workflow>           a standard workflow
#p~my-project~c~<workflow>           a workflow in the Visual Workflow Designer
#p~my-project~w~<workflow>~s~<step>  a step within a workflow
#p~my-project~t~<table>              a table in the Table Explorer
#p~my-project~d~<dimension>          a dimension hierarchy
#p~my-project~e~<editor>             a Data Editor
#home                                the Home landing page

Where a project has a schema name, the link uses it (my-project above), which makes the link readable and stable. Otherwise the project’s identifier is used. Both forms open the same project.

Note

Links created before the project-first format still work. Older ?p=…&t=… style links continue to open the right view, and the address bar updates itself to the current format on your first navigation.

When a Link Cannot Be Opened

If the object in a link has since been deleted, or you do not have access to its project, the link opens the app without that view rather than failing. Closing a window whose link is in the address bar returns the URL to the owning project, so the address bar never points at something that is no longer open.