I am a programmer working on a chart component that allows to drill down on selection of a node. Drilling down will show the details of that node (like its children etc.). But I am struggling to find out a word to describe the opposite of drilling down. "Drill up" sounds wrong. Does anyone have a nifty little word that conveys the opposite of "drilling down"? Something to convey the action of moving from something more specific to something more general.
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Not every other sentence must end in a question mark ? And there is never , never a whitespace before the question mark or a period ? Come on , you 've been on the site for so long , you should know better .– RegDwigнtCommented Feb 26, 2013 at 10:29
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@REGDWIGHТ Thanks for pointing . I edited the question.– GeekCommented Feb 26, 2013 at 10:33
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1And you have undone all of Reg's good work.– Andrew Leach ♦Commented Feb 26, 2013 at 10:34
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@AndrewLeach oops blame it on the concurrency handling of the site..His edits were not visible to me– GeekCommented Feb 26, 2013 at 10:37
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I can think of one phrase which involves a rotating tool followed by the word 'up', but it's probably not appropriate.– SimonCommented Apr 20, 2013 at 13:47
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Drill up is indeed what is used in a large number of instances. Here's an example.
However you could use zoom out to get the larger picture of the data.
answered Feb 26, 2013 at 10:30
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Drill up or Roll up can be used as opposite of drill down.It makes use of a decreasing granularity showing things more globally
Probably, you can use reverse drill down (or, reverse drilldown).
I found this on a University of Georgia memo:
The opposite of drill down is reverse drill down where the initial view is at the most granular available level, rather than a summarised view.
Maybe you would like one of these?
"back out", "expand out", "zoom back", "pull back", "unspecify", "despecify", "focus out"
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I'd add "step back" to this list or "take a few steps back". Commented Dec 18, 2017 at 20:33
"Drill up" doesn't make sense. "Roll up" also has diverse, different meanings, and I have never heard it used to mean to encompass a more general perspective. "Elevator view" is a good antonym. Less colorful would be "overview." Neither of these is a verb, but no good verb comes to mind.
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To leave comments on other answers, it's better to use the comment feature directly rather than including them in your answer. Commented Apr 20, 2013 at 21:29