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# Metric Management

The Metric Platform manages metrics through business topics and authorizes their usage. In metric management, business administrators create relevant topics based on business needs, add business-related metrics to the topics, manage the activation and deactivation of metrics, and authorize the topics and their associated metrics for use by other users within the platform.

This article primarily introduces how business administrators can create business topics, manage metrics, and authorize business topics for use by other users under metric management.

## Create a New Business Topic

Indicator management is composed of business topics, each containing indicators and subtopics. Below is an introduction on how to create business topics and add indicators.

1. Click the blue "+" under Indicator Management, enter the topic name in the pop-up window, and click Confirm. This will create a new business topic under Indicator Management.\
   ![](/images/datamart/business-indicator-domain-001.png)

2. To add indicators under a business topic, click "Add Indicator" under the specific business topic and select the indicators you want to add. You can filter different types of indicators using the filter.\
   ![](/images/datamart/business-indicator-domain-002.png)

3. If the business topic contains subtopics, you can click the "+" to the right of the topic to add a subtopic to it.\
   ![](/images/datamart/business-indicator-domain-004.png)

> \[!TIP] Tips
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> 1. Indicator management requires the user to have three [user roles](user-role.md#user-roles): System Management, Data Management, and Indicator Management, to qualify as a Super Business Administrator. A Super Business Administrator can create business topics in the root directory of Indicator Management. The Super Administrator can [authorize](#business-topic-permission-management) the business topics in the root directory to ordinary administrators (ordinary administrators have Data Management and Indicator Management roles) for management.
> 2. The same indicator can be added to multiple business topics. If an indicator is related to multiple business topics, it can be added to the relevant business topics.

## Create a Dynamic Domain

A Dynamic Domain reads metrics through a connection that an administrator has set up. Use it to access metrics maintained by an external metrics platform in HENGSHI SENSE. The connected platform supplies the metric content; HENGSHI SENSE does not convert the metrics into local metrics.

1. Open `Metric Management`, expand the `New Domain` menu, and select `Dynamic Domain`.
2. Enter a domain name and select an available [Metric API Data Source](connecting-ext-api.md#metric-api-data-source).
3. Click `Preview` to inspect the metric list. Save the domain after the preview shows the expected metrics.

Administrators manage dynamic metrics on the connected platform. You can search, page through, and refresh metrics in the current Dynamic Domain. HENGSHI SENSE does not let you add, edit, delete, or favorite them. Dynamic metric details do not include metric lineage or metric definitions.

> \[!TIP] Tip
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> 1. A user needs view access to both the Dynamic Domain and the metrics on its connection.
> 2. Metrics Analysis dashboards do not support Dynamic Domains. You can [create charts from a Measure Subject](dashboard.md#create-a-chart-from-a-measure-subject) in an App Creation Dashboard.

## Business Theme Management Metrics

Metrics can be added to both business themes and their sub-themes for management. Metrics within a theme can undergo operations such as publishing, unpublishing, removal, and more.

* **Publish**: After performing the publish operation, the metric will be in a published state, allowing users to view and analyze it. Metrics are in the published state by default upon being added.
* **Unpublish**: After performing the unpublish operation, the metric will be in a draft state, and users will not be able to view or use it.
* **Remove**: Metrics can be removed from the business theme if they are no longer needed.
* **Refresh**: Update metric information.
* **Edit**: Edit the metric. This requires permissions for the dataset to which the metric belongs and the data management role.
* **Enter Dataset**: Access the dataset where the metric was created to view and manage the metric. This also requires permissions for the dataset to which the metric belongs and the data management role.
* **Display Format**: Configure the numeric format of a metric value. This changes only how the value is displayed and does not change the metric definition or calculation result.

![](/images/datamart/business-indicator-domain-003.png)

### Switch Between Card and List Views

Metrics in a business topic support card and list views. Use the view switch in the upper-right corner of the metric area to change the view. Switching views changes only the layout and information density; it does not change a metric's publication status or business-topic membership.

List view is useful when a topic contains many metrics. It lets you compare information such as name, type, definition, display format, recent editor, and status, and continue to use metric operations from the right side of each row.

![Metrics displayed in list view in a business topic](/images/datamart/business-indicator-list-view.png)

### Set the Number of Metrics per Page

Open the page-size menu at the bottom of the metric list to display 12, 24, or 48 metrics per page. After switching between card and list views, use the pagination controls to continue browsing metrics in the current business topic.

![Setting the number of metrics displayed on each page](/images/datamart/business-indicator-page-size.png)

### Set a Metric Display Format

1. Open the action menu on a metric card or at the right side of a list row, then select **Display Format**.
2. Configure the unit, thousands separator, decimal places, or another available numeric format.
3. Confirm the change. Pages that support the metric's display format show the value in the new format.

A display format changes only how the metric value is presented. It does not modify the metric expression or underlying data. To restore the default presentation, reset the setting in the display-format dialog.

![Opening display-format settings from a metric action menu](/images/datamart/business-indicator-format.png)

## Operations Related to Business Topics

Business topics support operations such as renaming, authorization, deletion, vectorization of business topics, and Chatbot configuration.

* Create a New Domain: Add subtopics under a business topic.
* Rename: Modify the name when editing a business topic.
* Move To: Move a business topic under another business topic. You can search for a target domain or select one by expanding the domain tree.
* Delete: Delete a business topic when it is no longer in use. Deletion requires that the business topic is empty, with no subtopics or metrics.
* Permission Management: Business topics can be authorized to other users through permission management. Below is a detailed introduction to the operations users can perform after being authorized for a business topic.
* Vectorization of Business Metric Topics: Process business metric topics through vectorization to enhance data understanding. This feature is visible only after configuring the AI License. See [AI Vector Library](ai-general.md#VECTOR_ENDPOINT).
* Chatbot Configuration: Provide a data Q\&A bot in instant messaging tools, supporting WeCom/Feishu/DingTalk ChatBot configuration. This feature is visible only after configuring the AI License. For details, see [ChatBot](chatbot.md).

### Move a Business Topic

1. In the domain tree under Metric Management, open the three-dot menu next to the domain you want to move and select `Move To`.
2. Search for the target domain in the dialog, or expand the domain tree and select a target location.
3. Confirm the current domain, current location, and target location, and then click `Move To`.

If there are many domains, enter a name in the dialog to search for the target location. You can also expand the domain tree level by level and confirm the parent before moving the domain.

The target location must meet all of the following conditions:

* It cannot be the current domain or one of its subdomains.
* It cannot be the current parent domain, which would leave the domain in its original location.
* The current user must have write permission for the target domain.
* A static domain cannot be moved under a dynamic domain.

### Business Topic Permission Management

When managing permissions for business topics, the system provides users with the following two types of permissions. If the [User Role](user-role.md#user-role) includes the Metric Management role, the user can have both Permission 1 and Permission 2; otherwise, only Permission 2 is granted.

* Permission 1: Business topics can authorize other users as Managers, Editors, Viewers, or Tenant Users. Authorized users can collaboratively manage and view the business topic.

  * Manager: Manages the business topic, including editing, deleting, managing permissions, adding subtopics, and adding metrics.
  * Editor: Edits the business topic, including editing, deleting, adding subtopics, and adding metrics.
  * Viewer: Views the business topic and the metric information under its subtopics.
  * Tenant User: Authorized tenants can view the business topic and the metric information under its subtopics in the metric management section of the tenant system.

* Permission 2: After a business topic is authorized to other users, the authorized users can see the relevant business topic and the metrics under its subtopics in **Metric Analysis** -> **Metric Marketplace**. They can perform business analysis on these metrics in the [Metric Analysis Dashboard](metrics-analysis.md).

> \[!TIP] Tip\
> The same business metric can be included in multiple thematic domains, and it will be treated as two independent metrics in different thematic domains. Having permissions for one thematic domain does not automatically grant the user viewing permissions for the same business metric in another thematic domain.\
> The administrator of a business metric must have management permissions for the dataset where the metric library resides in order to add the business metric to a thematic domain in the metric management module. This check is only performed when the metric is added to the thematic domain. Therefore, even if the administrator subsequently loses management permissions for the dataset, it will not affect the use of business metrics already added to the thematic domain.

#### Viewing Permissions for Business Metric Data in Business Topics

After a business topic containing business metrics is authorized to a user, the user will automatically be granted viewing permissions for the underlying dataset. The row-level permissions the user has for the underlying data are restricted by the row-level permission configurations in the dataset.