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Querying data in JustAsk

JustAsk offers several ways to query your data, whether you prefer natural language or a visual interface. Each path produces a modeled query that respects your organization’s permissions and semantic model, so results are consistent no matter how you get there.

Ask questions with the JustAsk Agent

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The JustAsk Agent is a standalone chat experience available at the bottom of the left sidebar. Ask questions in plain language and get queries, visualizations, and summaries back — no workbook required.

The JustAsk Agent is a good starting point when you:

  • Want a quick answer without setting up a workbook
  • Need to explore a dataset you’re not familiar with
  • Want to create a dashboard from a conversation

JustAsk Agent

Ask questions, generate queries, and build visualizations in a conversational interface.

Build queries in a workbook

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Workbooks are JustAsk’s core analysis environment. Each workbook contains one or more tabs where you can build queries, create visualizations, and save your work. Within a workbook, you have several options for building queries:

Workbook Agent

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The Workbook Agent lets you build and refine queries using natural language directly in a workbook. Describe what you’re looking for — like “total revenue by region for the last quarter” — and the agent generates a modeled query you can then modify, visualize, and save.

The agent can also create filters, summarize results, build calculations, and generate visualizations from your query.

Point-and-click

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The point-and-click interface lets you build queries by selecting fields from the field picker. Choose dimensions and measures, apply filters, set sorts, and pivot results — all without writing any code. This is the most flexible way to build and iterate on queries in JustAsk.

Work with additional data

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Beyond querying your connected databases, JustAsk workbooks support additional ways to bring in and work with data:

  • CSV & Excel uploads — Upload files or manually enter data to use alongside your database queries. Useful for enriching analyses with data that isn’t in your data warehouse.
  • Spreadsheets — Add spreadsheet tabs to a workbook that connect to your queries and provide an Excel-like environment for formatting, ad hoc analysis, and building on top of live data.

Next steps

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