Managing the Workspace

The Workspace tab consists of a dashboard that serves as a landing page when you first log in to Data Insight. The Data Insight dashboard provides interactive visualization of the content repositories and users that Data Insight monitors. It also provides a way to navigate to the underlying detailed views.

See About the Data Insight Workspace.

The list views on the Workspace tab provide advanced analytics about configured data sources and users that Data Insight monitors.. The list views also provide a high-level summary of the configured storage devices and users from the perspective of space utilization, activity, number of sensitive files, and permissions.

You can further navigate to the underlying profile views that provide analytics on activity and permissions from the list views.

You can navigate to the detailed list views by from the Dashboard in the following ways:

You can use the search bar at the top of the Dashboard and the list-view screens to navigate to the Overview tab of a path or a user.

Figure: Working with the list-views

Working with the list-views

You can sort, filter, and change the context of the data displayed on the dashboard and list view of the Workspace tab.

Changing your current View

Data Insight lets you change the perspective of your data by changing your currently displayed View.

To change the currently displayed view

  1. Click the down arrow next to the currently selected View. Select Security, Activity, or Storage, as required.

    The perspective of the data displayed on the list view changes.

  2. Select Create View.

    On the pop-up, enter a logical name for the view and select the specific columns that you want to display.

To extract the contents of the dashboard

See Using the Workspace filters.