Discover Relationships for MSO

Intended audience: END-USERS ANALYSTS DEVELOPERS ADMINISTRATORS

AO Platform: 4.3

Overview

With an Ontology created and Statistics generated for the Ontology, additional discoveries can be done that will enrich an MSO in a variety of ways. This topic describes how to configure and discover Relationships between the current MSO and other user-selected MSOs. The result of this discovery process will be shown as Suggestions in the Show Suggestions option from the Action menu allowing users to either Accept or Reject the discovered options.

Discover Relationships

Discovering Relationships is the process of finding matching properties (and property values) in an MSO with properties in other user-selected MSOs.

After configuring the Discover Relationships properties, the user will click the Discover button to initiate a background task. At the end of the process, one or more suggestions will be available to the user to either Accept or Reject in the Show Suggestions dialog available from the Action menu. See Showing Suggestions for MSO.

Please note that the Discover Relationships process is depending on whether or not Statistics have been run. The dialog shown below will alert the user if Statistics haven’t been run and suggest running it first followed by the Discover Words process.

Notifications will be shown to the user for the Discover task. Additionally, the user can select View Task to keep an eye on the progress. See View Tasks for MSO.

There are three Discovery Methods:

Discover Relationships Automatically from Data Source
Discover Relationships Manually
Discover Composite Relationships

Discover Relationships Automatically from Data Source	Discover Relationships Manually	Discover Composite Relationships

Properties

Label	UI Widget	Description
Discovery Method	Radio-buttons	Select between… Discover Relationships Automatically from Data Source - this will scan the data source for all possible relationships - no configuration properties required. Discover Relationships Manually - configure which properties should be considered across one or more MSOs for property and value matches - see the following configuration properties below. Discover Composite Relationships - configure which properties collectively should be considered across one or more MSOs for property and value matches - see the following configuration properties below.
Properties in [MSO Name] MSO		Shows list of Properties selected from current MSO.
+ Add Property	Button	Click the + Add Property button to open dialog for the selection of properties from current MSO to be added to list. This option is only available for Manual Relationships.
Properties in [MSO Name] MSO		Shows list of Groups of Properties selected from current MSO.
+ Add Composite Property	Button	Click the + Add Composite Property button to open dialog for the selection of properties from current MSO to be added to list. This option is only available for Composite Relationships.
MSOs to be Searched for Relationships		Shows list of MSOs selected.
+ Add MSO	Button	Click the + Add MSO button to open dialog for the selection of the MSOs that will be searched for matching properties/values.

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