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Publishing Your Data Model (EX)

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Qtip: This page only describes data models in Employee Journey Analytics and CrossXM Analytics projects.
Attention: Projects created before November 6, 2024 use the old data model and have been placed in an Archived state. You cannot edit, publish, or refresh the data model in archived projects. Previously published data, dashboards, participants, and Stats iQ will continue to be available and operational, however dashboard creation and copying is disabled in archived projects. Archived projects cannot be copied; create a new project instead.the archived banner at the top of an old EJA or Cross XM project

About Publishing Your Data Model

Once you have generated a preview of your dataset, click Publish. This will prepare the dataset for use in dashboards and Stats iQ.

publish button in the data model

After your data model is published, the Publish button will be grayed out and you will see a date for when the model was last published. If you make changes to your data model you will have to preview and publish it again.

published data model

Now that your dataset is published, navigate to the Data & Analysis tab to view the data or the Dashboards tab to run analysis.

Attention: Text iQ is not available in the journey project’s Data & Analysis tab. If you’d like to use text analytics, perform them in the source projects before building the data model. You also cannot use the “Field Editor” tab in Data & Analysis since you can edit fields directly in the data model instead.

Refreshing the Dataset

Data models that only use left joins, filters, unions, and new fields are continuously updated as new responses come in. You do not need to refresh these datasets. Newly collected responses to surveys included in the data model will be automatically included in the output dataset.

Data models with aggregations or outer joins will be periodically refreshed each week based on when the first survey was sent out. You can manually refresh your dataset at any time by following the below steps:

  1. Click the arrow next to the Publish button.
    refreshing the dataset
  2. Select Refresh Dataset.
  3. Click Confirm in the confirmation window. This may take a long time as the entire dataset will be re-built.

Dataset Update Schedule

Datasets will periodically update with new data automatically. You can view when your dataset was last updated and the next scheduled update by hovering your mouse over the clock next to your dataset’s name.
viewing the last time the dataset was updated