Curation - Micro Application Properties
Intended audience: END-USERS ANALYSTS DEVELOPERS ADMINISTRATORS
AO Platform: 4.3
Overview
This section contains an overview of all properties related to the configuration of Micro Applications used when adding Curation to an MSO. Any number of visual representations can be associated with the data. Here’s the currently available list of Micro Applications:
Configuration of Micro Applications
Properties
Label | UI Widget | Defaults | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Active | ON/OFF Toggle | Enabled | A Micro Application curation can be either Active or Inactive. This allows multiple Micro Applications to be created for an MSO, but if made Inactive/Disabled, will not show up on the Easy Answers Results page. |
ID | Read-only Field | Shows the ID assigned to the Application. A consistent internal ID reference. | |
Name | Text Field | This is the Curation Name of the Micro Application configuration. It appears in the Curation list in the left-side panel. If no Curation Name is entered, the Name of the selected Micro App will be used. | |
Description | Multi-line Text Field | Enter a Description for the Micro App. | |
Micro App | Dropdown | Select the desired Micro Application from the Search dialog. | |
Icon | Icon | empty | Add an Icon to represent the MicroApp. Will be used next to Titles wherever the MicroApp is rendered, such as in the Easy Answers Results Dashboard. |
Properties specific to Micro App selected… | Once the Micro App has been selected in the previous property, one or more properties show up specific to the Micro App. For example, if a Simple Table Micro App is selected, user will have the option to select which Columns to show in the table and how to Sort the data. See Common Micro Applications and Associated Properties. | ||
Display Order | Number Field | Number to indicate the order of the Micro App amongst other Apps on the Results page in Easy Answers | |
LAYOUT | |||
| Number Field | Enter a number to identify the height of the App. Different Apps may have different default heights. If no Row Span is applied, the App will most often be rendered as a 4 rows x 4 columns span. Cue Cards may be as small as 1 x 1, however, most other Apps can not be resized to less than a 2 x 2 span. | |
| Number Field | Enter a number to identify the width of the App (most often a number between 2 and 8). Different Apps may have different default widths. If no Column Span is applied, the App will most often be rendered as a 4 rows x 4 columns span. Cue Cards may be as small as 1 x 1, however, most other Apps can not be resized to less than a 2 x 2 span. | |
DEFAULT CRITERIA | |||
| Text Field with a Filter button | Use the Query Builder to add one or more default criteria to be added whenever this MSO is used in Easy Answers, eg. criteria that could be applied as a specific time duration. | |
CURATION FILTERS | |||
| Multi-select Dropdown | The Record Count property allows the user to determine when the configured Micro Application will be used, - depending on the number of records in the data source. This allows the user to configure different Micro Applications for small/medium/large data volumes. | |
| Dropdown | Like the Record Count property, the Fields list (repeater) is used to determine which Curation will be used for the visualization - depending on the words used in the NLP query matching the property fields configured (from one or more MSOs). | |
| Text Field | Group Name is used to identify a group of property fields - configured under Group Fields. Multiple groups can be configured. | |
| Multi-select Tags | Group Fields allows the user to configure multiple property fields (from one or more MSOs) for each Group Name. | |
PARAMETERS | |||
| Text Field | The Parameters repeater section allows the user to select some additional parameters that will be applied to the Micro App selected, including aggregations. The Name field is the friendly name for what is selected in the MSO Field dropdown. | |
| Dropdown | The dropdown MSO Field allows the user to select an option relating to each MSO Field, such as data aggregation. |
Preview
Once a Micro Application has been configured as a Curated visualization, click the Preview button to see what the Micro Application will look like when shown in Easy Answers. In general, all interactions with the Micro Application including single- and double-click actions available on links and in charts will also be available in the Preview mode. Layout options managing the size of the Micro Applications will not be used in Preview, but will be used when the App is shown in the Easy Answers Results and Dashboard pages.
Before clicking the Preview button, make sure to save the MSO using the Save option in the Header.
