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Introduction to the Datamartist User Interface

The Datamartist interface has four main areas

• Block Library - this provides a list of all the blocks that your version of datamartist has available to use on the canvas.
• Canvas - this is the area where all the block digrams are created and where all the data transformation is defined. By creating drawings of blocks connected together, and configuring the blocks, data transformations are created.
• Pan and Zoom - the Pan and Zoom control lets you navigate accross the canvas, letting you use lots of blocks to create complex transformations if required.
• Data viewer and Block configuration - this area provides access to the data viewer and profiler and is also where you configure a number of the blocks- as you select a data connector, the data viewer will be displayed showing the data being passed by that connection. Selecting certain block types will cause the block configuration controls to be displayed, letting you modify the data transformation that the block is doing.