# Metrics Generation

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Metrics Generation is currently a Beta feature. If you have any questions or feedback, please reach out to <support@getselectstar.com>
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Select Star can help you document metrics that currently exist in your BI layer, saving hours spent documenting.

By looking at the calculation and lineage behind your dashboards, Select Star can generate metric documentation, including the formula, dimensions, and where it's represented in your BI layer. We extract the measures in the datasets powering your dashboards

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Metrics generation is currently supported for PowerBI and Tableau with support for Looker coming soon.
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## Generating Metrics

The process for generating metrics is as follows:

1. On the dashboard list page, select one or more dashboards that you want to generate metrics for
2. Click **Generate Metrics** at the top of the list

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3. Click confirm in the modal. Metrics will be created with the **Draft** tag applied, and you will receive an email summary with metrics that were created.

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4. Review the generated metrics.

Once metrics are finished generating, you'll receive an email with the generated metrics. We highly recommend you review the generated metrics and organize them into [Collections](/data-management/collections.md) and remove the **Draft** tag when ready.

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### Things to Know

1. The user who generates the metric will automatically be set as the business and technical owner of the created metrics
2. If Select Star detects that a metric already exists, it will not create a duplicate metric, and skipped metrics will be indicated in the email. Duplicates are detected when:
   1. Another metric with the same data measure defined in it's "represented as" section already exists
   2. If another metric already exists with the same name
   3. If mulitiple generated metrics share the same name, only one will be created, with all measures included in the "represented as" field
3. If Select Star detects a similar metric, it will be included in the generated metric's description


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