Description Skill

This skill helps the AI Assistant generate business-friendly descriptions of analytical objects in chat.

Use this skill when users want to understand what a metric, attribute, fact, visualization, or dashboard means. The assistant generates a description in the conversation based on the semantic context available in the workspace.

How It Works

The Description skill analyzes analytical objects and their context. When activated, the AI Assistant can:

1. Identify the referenced analytical object.
2. Load the available semantic context for that object.
3. Use the object title, description, definition context, relationships, and related dataset or entity information.
4. Generate a business-friendly description in the chat.

This helps the AI Assistant explain objects in business terms using the semantic context already available in the workspace.

The same skill is also used by the Analytics Catalog to generate descriptions there. In that case, the generated text is handled through the Analytics Catalog UI, not through the AI Assistant conversation.

Supported Objects

The Description skill can work with these object types:

• Metrics
• Attributes
• Facts
• Date Datasets
• Visualizations
• Dashboards
• Ad-Hoc Visualizations Created by the AI Assistant

Objects hidden from AI are excluded.

Examples

Describe a Metric
The user asks: What does Gross Margin mean?
The AI Assistant then:

• Finds the referenced metric.
• Uses the available semantic context.
• Returns a business-friendly description of what the metric measures.

Describe an Attribute
The user asks: Explain Customer City.
The AI Assistant then:

• Identifies the attribute.
• Uses its metadata and related context.
• Returns a description of what the attribute represents and how it is used in analysis.

Describe a Visualization
The user asks: What does this show?
The AI Assistant then:

• Identifies the current visualization.
• Uses its saved or generated context.
• Returns a description of what the visualization shows in business terms.

More Example Prompts

• Describe what this attribute represents.
• What is this metric measuring?
• Explain this dashboard.
• Describe this visualization.

Limitations

• The AI Assistant does not update metadata descriptions of analytical objects.
• In the AI Assistant, the output is always a generated description in the chat.
• Explanation quality depends on the available context and object definitions.
• Hidden objects are excluded from this skill.
• Some ad-hoc visualizations may provide less context than saved objects.
• The skill works best when objects have clear definitions, relationships, titles, and descriptions.