Re: USAGE: Drill down

["Campbell, Art" <artc -at- NORTHCHURCH -dot- NET>]

"Drill down" is a common db term and the marketeer is using it correctly.

Note that it only makes sense in nested information. Think, for instance of
a Word
outline where you can hide all the "lower" levels. To drill down in this
situation,
you'd double click a I. level head to reveal the A., B., and C. heads,
double click
one of those to see the 1., 2., and 3., double click one of those to see the
a., b., etc.

Art

Art Campbell
Technical Publications
Northchurch Communications
Five Corporate Drive
Andover, MA 01810
978 691-6344

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathleen Frost [mailto:frostdoc -at- EARTHLINK -dot- NET]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 10:51 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: USAGE: Drill down

The questionable term here is "drill down" and, nope, we're not in the oil
industry or searching for water....

Our marketing person wrote a typical bulleted feature list for one of our
Internet application products.  This one bothers me.  I know she must have
gotten the term from a programmer but I have never heard it at any other
company I've worked for.  I need to know if this is a common phrase in the
software industry that I just missed along the way.

....the right combination of features:
*  Point-and-click drill down to detailed information.

I know that, in this case, you generate a report of all records.  You click
one record name to get the summary report on that record.  Then you click an
icon on the summary report to display to the detailed-level report of the
selected record.  The programmers call the multi-step action "drilling
down."

Does anyone else use this term?  To avoid clutter on the list, please
respond offline and I'll summarize in a few days.

Kathy Frost
FrostDoc -at- Earthlink -dot- Net

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