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Clarify Explorer lineage state #4584

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Clarify Explorer lineage state
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Update website/docs/docs/collaborate/explore-projects.md
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Expand Up @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ For a richer experience with dbt Explorer, you must:
- Run [dbt source freshness](/reference/commands/source#dbt-source-freshness) within a job in the environment to view source freshness data.
- Run [dbt snapshot](/reference/commands/snapshot) or [dbt build](/reference/commands/build) within a job in the environment to view snapshot details.

Richer and more timely metadata will become available as dbt, the Discovery API, and the underlying dbt Cloud platform evolves.
Richer and more timely metadata will become available as dbt Core, the Discovery API, and the underlying dbt Cloud platform evolves.

## Explore your project's lineage graph {#project-lineage}

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The nodes in the lineage graph represent the project’s resources and the edges represent the relationships between the nodes. Nodes are color-coded and include iconography according to their resource type.

By default, dbt Explorer shows the project's [applied state](/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/project-state#definition-logical-vs-applied-state-of-dbt-nodes) lineage. That is, it shows models that have been successfully built and are available to query, not just the models defined in the project.

To explore the lineage graphs of tests and macros, view [their resource details pages](#view-resource-details). By default, dbt Explorer excludes these resources from the full lineage graph unless a search query returns them as results.

To interact with the full lineage graph, you can:
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