The Playground is the Dashboard view that maps the areas of DataMind OS. Use it to open an area, or to start creating with a card's quick actions.
The map opens under the heading Find your way around. It needs no permission, so every signed-in user sees it. Chat and Flow are the Dashboard's other views: The Dashboard covers the view switch, and The Flow view draws how your data moves through DataMind OS.
The map arranges the cards the way your data moves through DataMind OS:
| Group | What it covers | Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Data pipeline | Build and run the flow that moves your data | Lake, Warehouse, Writeback, Workflows |
| Explore & analyze | Dig into your data and turn it into answers | Editor, Popups, Slides, DataPrism |
| Operate & govern | Run, monitor, and administer the platform | Administration, Observability, Documentation, Lineage |
The four Data pipeline cards are numbered 01 to 04, in the order your data travels.
Click a card to open its area. Each card carries a short line about what the area does:
| Card | What it does | Quick actions |
|---|---|---|
| Lake | Land raw data from any source | Import source |
| Warehouse | Shape raw data into clean, modeled tables | New transformation, New dictionary, New static, New fact, New dimension |
| Writeback | Send curated data back to your source systems | Add destination |
| Workflows | Orchestrate, schedule, and watch your pipelines run | Add workflow |
| Editor | Query and explore your data | None |
| Popups | Inspect any table or transformation on the spot | None |
| Slides | Build and present decks from your data | New presentation |
| DataPrism | Build reports and explore semantic models | New report, New semantic model |
| Administration | Manage users, roles, and workspace settings | Add user, Add roles |
| Observability | Keep an eye on platform health and performance | None |
| Documentation | Learn the platform, end to end | None |
| Lineage | Trace every table from source to finish | None |
A + on a card reveals its quick actions. Each action opens its area with the create flow ready.
Where an action takes you:
The + appears only on cards with at least one action you can use.
The map shows only the cards and quick actions your permissions allow: a card you cannot open is not shown, and a group with no visible cards disappears. Nothing here is configurable.
For example:
The same permissions decide the sidebar. Find your way around explains the sidebar and the account menu, and How DataMind OS fits together lists the permission behind each area.
The map shows only what your permissions allow: a card you cannot open is not shown, and a group with no visible cards disappears. Open Profile from the account menu to check your permissions, or ask your administrator. How DataMind OS fits together lists the permission behind each area.
Straight into the create flow of that area. For example, Import source opens Lake with its add-source view, and Add user opens the create user form in Administration. A Warehouse action opens a new popup of that type, named with the next free number, such as Transformation 1.
It opens the same picker as Open Popups in the sidebar. Search for a table or transformation, then click it. It opens in a popup window over the page you are on. See Open Popups.
Two reasons. Editor, Popups, Observability, Documentation and Lineage have no quick actions at all, so they never show +. On the other cards, + appears only when at least one action is allowed for you.
The Playground needs no permission, so every signed-in user has it. When Chat is not available to you, the Dashboard opens on the first view you can use, which is the Playground. The Dashboard explains which views you see.
Administration, DataPrism and Slides reopen where you last worked in them, the same way their sidebar entries do. The other cards simply open their area.
The numbers 01 to 04 sit on the four Data pipeline cards and mark the order your data travels: Lake, Warehouse, Writeback, Workflows.