USAGE: Drill down

Subject: USAGE: Drill down
From: Kathleen Frost <frostdoc -at- EARTHLINK -dot- NET>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:51:13 -0400

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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