Searching
Intended audience: USERS DEVELOPERS ADMINISTRATORS
AO Platform: 4.3
Overview
The AO Platform offers different ways to search for things in the system. This topic provides a short introduction with some examples.
Search Bar
The Search bar, as found in many places across the AO Platform user interface, takes input either by typing directly into the Search field, or by speaking, if the user clicks the microphone icon first.
User may need to acknowledge use of the microphone if this is the first time the microphone has been used within an AO Platform Solution.
This Search bar helps user finding objects in the different Composers, including (but not limited to):
Find a Pipeline
Find an Ontology
Find an MSO
Find an Application
Find a Solution
Find a Template
Find a JS Function
The search bar uses an AO Platform specific “search engine” which is constantly updated based on the different objects created in the Composers.
Search Example
Within the Ontology Composer, searching for the word Customer has found multiple MSOs with Customer as part of the MSO name.
The microphone shows up red when it’s expecting a voice-based search term
Easy Answers - NLP Query
If Easy Answers has been enabled in a Solution, the Search Bar will include a dropdown option to select an Easy Answers option. This option is a very powerful type of search, allowing the user to do data discovery by adding a question in plain English from which the system will generate one or more dashboard components automatically based on the best possible interpretation of what the user has asked for. Easy Answers also features role-based Recommendations and system-generated Insights based on probabilistic analysis. See Understanding Natural Language Queries.
Search Dialogs
Search dialogs are specific to a given type of object, such as Pipelines, Applications, and Templates, and will typically appear when a given object needs to be associated with another object, such as associating a Pipeline or MSO as a data source within a Micro Application, or adding a Template as the starting point for an Application configuration.
Search dialogs will generally include the following information for each entry:
Icon to identify the type of object (Pipeline only)
Object name
Short description
Domain of object
Most recent date of modification of the object
List of Tags (Pipeline only)
In Pipeline Composer…
New Pipeline Source Search Dialog | New Transformation Search Dialog |
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New Sink Search Dialog | |
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In Application Composer…
Template Search Dialog | MSO Search Dialog |
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Pipeline Search Dialog | JS Function Search Dialog |
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Search Ontology Dialog
This dialog allows the user to search for specific Search Terms used within an Ontology, specifically, such as MSOs, MSO Properties, Linguistics, and Prompts. See Search Ontology for details.