The sidebar on the left takes you to every area of DataMind OS that your role lets you open. Use this page when you cannot find an item, want to open a table from any page, or need more room on the screen.
The sidebar shows its areas in four groups, separated by thin lines:
Some items show a small BETA or SOON badge next to the name.
Click an item to open it. Four items return you to where you left off:
An open Minds conversation, a DataPrism report and a Slides deck keep their state while you browse: go to another page, come back, and they are as you left them.
The DataMind OS logo at the top of the sidebar opens the Dashboard.
BI opens in a new browser tab.
The sidebar does not show locked items. An area your role does not allow is missing from the list.
When the sidebar is narrow, the arrow appears only while you point at the sidebar. DataMind OS remembers your choice in this browser, so the sidebar opens the way you left it.
Press Ctrl/⌘+B at any time to show or hide the sidebar. Keyboard shortcuts lists this key and the others that work anywhere.
If the window is too short for every item, the items that do not fit move into More at the bottom of the list. Click More to open them. A small dot on More shows that the page you are on is one of them.
Open Popups sits at the bottom of the sidebar. It appears only if you can read or change Lake tables.
The picker lists Warehouse tables, Lake tables and transformations in separate columns. Press Alt+Q again to close it.
Open Popups explains the picker in full, and Popup windows explains how the floating windows behave.
Your photo or initials, name and email sit at the bottom of the sidebar. Click them to open the account menu. With the sidebar narrowed, the header shows your name, along with a Password locked badge if password sign-in is locked for your account. The menu closes when you pick an item; a dialog it opens, such as Profile, stays open until you close it.
| Item | What it does | Shown when |
|---|---|---|
| Install App | Adds DataMind OS to this device. | You are in a browser and the app is not installed. It is greyed out where your browser cannot install it. |
| Open App | Opens the installed app. | You are in a browser and the app is installed. |
| Profile | Opens your profile, including your permissions. | Always. |
| Change theme | Changes the theme. The menu shows Light and Dark rows, with a check on the active one. | Always. |
| Impersonate user | Lets you see DataMind OS as another user does. | You hold Impersonate User. See Impersonate a user. |
| API tokens | Opens your API tokens. | You hold Create API Tokens. See API tokens. |
| Logout | Signs you out. | Always. |
Installing and opening the app are described in Your profile and preferences.
Every signed-in user sees these three items.
The sidebar shows only the areas your roles allow. If a group has no items you can open, its line disappears too.
On a phone (a screen narrower than 768 px), only Minds opens, along with shared DataMind Oda conversations. Any other link takes you to Minds.
The Menu panel at the bottom groups the areas you can open under Navigation, Data and Support. Minds, Editor, DataPrism and Slides are not among its items.
Printing a page, or exporting it to PDF, is exempt from the redirect, so a print preview does not send you to Minds.
Inside Minds, the Sources, Training Hub and Benchmarks tabs do not appear on a phone. Use a computer to work in them. For everything else that changes on a phone, see DataMind OS on your phone.
Access Denied appears when your role does not allow a page. The message reads Sorry, you don't have permission to access this page. On a computer, click Go Back to return. Click Sign In to sign out and sign in as someone else.
Page not found appears when the address does not exist. Click Go Back or Home to open the home page. On a phone, Go to Minds also appears.
Something went wrong appears when a page fails to load. Click Try Again to load the page again, Go Back to return to the previous page, or Home to open the home page. Click View error details to see the error text. The page ends with If this problem persists, please contact support.
The sidebar shows only the areas your roles allow. Open Profile from the account menu to check your permissions. If you need more, ask your administrator. See How access works.
Your window is too short to show every item. Click More to open the items that do not fit.
Press Alt+Q, search for the table and click it. It opens as a popup over the page. Open Popups appears only if you can read or change Lake tables.
On a phone, only Minds opens, so every other page redirects there. Open the link on a computer. See DataMind OS on your phone.
Your role does not allow that page. Click Go Back, or ask your administrator for the permission you need.
It reopens the Administration section you used last, if you still have access to it. Otherwise it opens the first section you can use.
On the Universe page, in the tiles for connecting your tools. See Integrations.
They reopen the page you last visited in them, until you reload the page. After a reload, they open their home page.
No. DataMind OS is in English and has no language setting.
An unexpected error stopped the page from loading. Click Try Again. If it keeps happening, contact support.
Yes. An open Minds conversation, a DataPrism report and a Slides deck keep their state while you move around DataMind OS, so you come back to what you left.
Yes, in this browser. DataMind OS keeps your choice, so the sidebar opens the way you left it.