Editing a Business View

To edit a Business View, navigate to the Data → Business View tab, locate the Business View you want to modify, and select Edit from its options. This opens the Edit Business View dialog, which contains the following fields and settings.

Business View Name: The display name of the Business View. You can rename the Business View by editing this field.

Description: An optional free-text field where you can provide a human-readable description of the Business View.

Kaiya Context Description: A description auto-generated by Kaiya when Auto BV (wherein Kaiya auto-selects the relevant Business View) is enabled. Unlike the Description field above, the Kaiya Context Description directly influences how Kaiya interprets user questions, selects this Business View in auto-BV mode, and generates responses. This helps Kaiya when answering questions based on this Business View and deciding whether to auto-select it for a given question.

Show Advanced Settings: This toggle reveals additional configuration options as follows. When disabled, the advanced settings are hidden to keep the dialog simple.

• Save to Fast Query Engine: When enabled, the Business View's data is cached in Tellius's in-memory fast query engine for accelerated query performance. Queries against this Business View will execute faster because Tellius reads from the cached layer rather than querying the underlying data source directly each time. This is recommended for Business Views that are queried frequently or used in interactive analysis where response time matters. If your Business View is very large and rarely queried, you may choose to disable this.

• Hide in Search Engine: When enabled, this Business View is excluded from Kaiya's search results and will not appear as an option when users browse or search for Business Views in the Kaiya interface. The Business View still exists and can be accessed directly.

• Point in Time: When Point in Time is enabled, time-based analysis in Vizpads treats each time bucket as an end-of-period snapshot. For weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly groupings, Tellius uses the latest available data point inside that period instead of aggregating (summing or rolling up) everything that occurred during it.

This applies to time-based analysis types including Year-over-Year (YoY) and other time comparisons, Top/Bottom analysis, and Top/Bottom For Each analysis. It is supported across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly time resolutions.

Why this matters: Some metrics are not additive over time. Metrics like "Active Customers", "Inventory on Hand", "Account Balance", or "Headcount" represent a snapshot at a point in time. They should not be summed across days or weeks because that would produce a meaningless number. For these metrics, what you actually want is the latest value within each period, not the total of every daily reading.

Example: Suppose you track Active Customers, and the value updates daily.

• Without Point in Time, a monthly view would sum every daily Active Customers value in the month, producing an inflated and meaningless total.

• With Point in Time enabled, the monthly view shows the latest Active Customers value recorded in each month (effectively the end-of-month snapshot). A Year-over-Year comparison then compares true month-end snapshots against each other, giving you an accurate picture of growth or decline.

Click Save to apply your changes, or click the X button in the top-right corner to close the dialog without saving.