Metadata is critical to to help the user find the reports he or she are looking for as it adds additional information about what’s in the reports. What’s metadata? Strictly it is “data about data” or additional descriptions, tags, fields that describe the data or report. Here’s a suggestion for small reporting portals: Brief description [short …
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Naming Data Reports to Enhance Findability (1 of 9 Best practices for reporting portals)
Very often a project or program will need a reporting portal. It may start as a small folder for reports and grows with the project. Even “Big Data” projects can have multiple small reporting portals separate from the main reporting portal. In this article, I will share with you some best practices to make a small reporting portal that helps …