drilldown

The term is sometimes used when referring to moving down through a hierarchy of folders and files in a file system like that of Windows. It may also mean clicking through a series of dropdown menus in a graphical user interface.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Analyzer is said to "provide easy drilldown," possibly meaning that it allows the user to get quickly to a desired function or work unit.

The term drillup is also reported in the multi-dimensional data access query language (MDX), which contains the keywords DRILLDOWNMEMBER and DRILLUPMEMBER as well as TOGGLEDRILLSTATE.

Read more about drilldown: - What Is a Drilldown Layer explains that a drilldown layer is a level of map detail. - It can also be used by a human factors company in describing its GUI development product . - A company in Houston and Dallas, Solution One, was the company that got the "drilldown.com" domain name . They sell Microsoft products.

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