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Hubviz glossary: terms used in Studio and Web
Hubviz terms in alphabetical order, from add-on and tab to workspace, each with a short definition and a link to the page that explains it.
The terms that appear in Hubviz Studio, Hubviz Web and this documentation. To see how the pieces fit together, read Concepts.
| Term | What it is |
|---|---|
| Accounting data | Chart of accounts, trial balances and ledger, on the Professional and Business plans. See Accounting in Hubviz. |
| Add-ons | Users, storage and AI credits you buy on top of the plan, on the Professional and Business plans. See Plan and billing. |
| Aggregation | The calculation a measure does over a field’s values, like sum, average or count. See Measures. |
| AI assistant | Hubviz Studio chat that creates cubes, measures, charts and dashboards from a text request. It does not spend AI credits. See Assistant. |
| AI chart analysis | Text the AI writes about a chart’s numbers, in Hubviz Web. See AI chart analysis. |
| AI credits | Monthly amount of new conversations in the Hubviz Web AI chat, set by the plan. See Plan and billing. |
| Automatic refresh | A schedule that processes a cube again by itself, on your computer or in the Hubviz cloud. See Automatic refresh. |
| Billing portal | Page where you change your card, download invoices, change plans and cancel. See Plan and billing. |
| Calculated field | A field created with a formula from other fields, like revenue minus cost. See Calculated fields. |
| Chart | Shows one or more measures: columns, lines, pie, cards, tables and others. See Chart types. |
| Chart of accounts | The list of the company’s accounting accounts, used by accounting data on the Professional and Business plans. See Accounting in Hubviz. |
| Connection | The path to the data: a file, a database, an API, a Google spreadsheet or a webhook. One connection can serve several cubes. See Connections overview. |
| Creator | A person who uses Hubviz Studio to connect data and build dashboards, and sees all the dashboards of the projects. The plan sets how many creators the workspace can have, and only active users count. See Users and limits. |
| Cube | A table of data ready for analysis, read from a connection. It is the base of measures. See Concepts. |
| Dashboard | A screen that joins several charts, with filters that apply to all of them. In sharing, it appears as a view. See Build a dashboard. |
| Data Lake | The Hubviz Web screen where you upload the trial balance, on the Professional and Business plans. See Accounting in Hubviz. |
| Department | A division of the company that comes from the trial balance and becomes a dashboard filter on the Professional and Business plans. See Accounting in Hubviz. |
| Drill-down | Going from one level of a chart to another, like from year to month. See Drill-down. |
| Field | A cube column, with a type: text, number or date. See Cube fields. |
| Filter | Restricts what the charts show, like a period or a unit. See Filters. |
| Financial statement | A chart in table form, line by line, like an income statement. It exists on every plan. See Financial statement. |
| Free trial | The first 7 days of the subscription, with no charge. A card is required. See Create an account. |
| Hubviz Studio | Where creators connect data and build dashboards. It works in the browser. See Open Hubviz Studio. |
| Hubviz Web | Where the team opens the published dashboards, in the browser. See Sign in to Hubviz Web. |
| Id field | A field type that identifies each record in the cube. With it, a new publish updates rows by identifier. See Republish. |
| Ledger | An accounting report with each account’s entries, uploaded through the Data Lake on the Professional and Business plans. See Accounting in Hubviz. |
| Measure | A number calculated from a field over a period, like the sum of revenue. See Measures. |
| Period | The date range the charts show, with an option to compare with another. See Period and comparison. |
| Pivot table | A table that crosses fields into rows and columns and adds up the values. See Pivot table. |
| Presentation | A set of slides built with the project’s charts, with full-screen mode, PDF and a public link. It exists on the Professional and Business plans. See Presentations. |
| Project | Holds everything about one subject: cubes, charts and dashboards. See Projects and dashboards. |
| Public link | An address that opens a presentation without signing in and expires on a date. Dashboards have no public link. See Presentations. |
| Publish | Send the cube data to the Hubviz cloud with the Publish to the Web button. After that, the dashboards show the new numbers in Hubviz Web. See Publish to Hubviz Web. |
| Relationship | A link between two cubes through a shared field, like the customer code. See Relationships. |
| Role | A group of permissions you give a user in Hubviz Web, under Administration, Roles. The people in your company use Usuário Administrador, for whoever manages the workspace, and Cliente, for whoever only views. A role does not unlock dashboards: creators see everything and everyone else is a viewer. Admin belongs to the Hubviz support user. See Users and limits. |
| Share | Give a person read access to chosen dashboards and tabs. See Share. |
| Storage | Space in the Hubviz cloud for published data. The size depends on the plan. See Publish to Hubviz Web. |
| Tab | A division of a dashboard, with its own charts. In sharing, you choose which tabs each person sees. See Navigate dashboards. |
| Trial balance | An accounting report uploaded to Hubviz Web through the Data Lake, on the Professional and Business plans. See Accounting in Hubviz. |
| View | The name sharing uses for a dashboard. See Share. |
| Viewer | A person who only opens and views, in Hubviz Web, the dashboards that were shared with them. See Users and limits. |
| Webhook | An address that receives data sent by another system, so you do not have to fetch it. See Webhook. |
| Workspace | Your company’s space in Hubviz, with projects, users and a plan. One Google account can be in more than one. See How to sign in to Hubviz Web. |