You can use drill down to describe the process of accessing data in a lower level of a hierarchically-structured database. For example, when you mean to:
Click through a hierarchy of folders on a desktop or a series of menus in a GUI.
Move from general information to detailed data. For example, use drill down when you mean to start a database search with a general category and then move in turn to a file, a field, and then a record.
Examples |
You can drill down to see more detail about the data in your workspace. For example, you can review revenue for each product line and then drill down to analyze the revenue for each product. |
You can also drill down on the labels and data elements of your chart, such as the legend labels, axis labels, or columns in a column chart. |
