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Introduction

Aspire 2.0 introduces a new user interface, which allows users to manage content sources and services in a cleaner, simpler and more efficient way. This new UI brings the concept of "content sources" and "services" to the forefront making creating and managing them much easier for both administrators and developers (services are available only in 2.1)

Aspire UI is capable of running on the most used browsers. Aspire 2.0 UI Browser Compatibility


Aspire UI Layout

Aspire UI has a general layout for all its pages, this layout consists of four sections

  • User Bar

Contains Aspire's logo (also a direct link to the Home Page), the title of the current page, and the username currently logged on and the "Sign out" option. In cases where Aspire doesn't have a security measure configured, instead of the username the word "Anonymous" will appear

  • Action Bar

Contains the general functional groups for the current page, on the left side of the bar there are always the links to the Aspire Wiki, Debug Console, Aspire UI Home Page and a link that will cause a page refresh.

  • Main Container

This section holds the main information for each page and it will change depending on the context of the page.

  • Footer

The Footer marks the end of the page and it displays the current version of Aspire on the left, and a link to Search Technologies web page at the right

Aspire UI Pages

Login

Aspire UI features a new Login page that will appear once you have configured the administrator security access for Aspire. Aspire does not require administrator security access, it can run in "anonymous" mode.


How to enable the Login page

The login page will appear once you have configured a security type option (ConfigFile or LDAP), the configuration for these types of security can be found in the Security Wiki Page

Username and Session

Once the user has signed in into Aspire Server, the username will appear on the top right corner, next to the Sign Out option. This session will last as long as the webpage is active if for some reason the webpage is inactive for more than thirty minutes (30 min), the session will expire, and the user will need to log on again.


User sign in Aspire

No Security

If you wish to use Aspire without security as it is by default, an Anonymous user will appear in the top right corner, without a Sign Out option next to it. This will indicate that Aspire is not using any security to validate the user who accesses Aspire. And the session will never expire.



Anonymous user

Content Source Management (Home Page)

This is the landing page or the Home page of Aspire 2.0, which introduces new features which simplify the work of management of content sources. From this page, the user can begin creation, sort, search, filter, group, and view content sources. This page displays the content source "cards" that show current status, start time, running time, jobs completed, errors and more. You can even change each content source card's position to one more suitable by dragging the content source and dropping it over the content source you want to swap places with. There are also new features for content source management such as grouping, searching and filtering content source cards.

As you can see in the image above, this page has eight (8) general functions:

  1. Wiki Link: A direct link to Aspire's Wiki.
  2. Debug Console: Opens the debug console.
  3. Refresh Container: Refresh the content source container without the need to refresh the entire web page.
  4. Group: Allows the administrator to create and name a content source group card to store multiple content sources together.
  5. Import: Uploads a content source zip file and installs it on the server. This function is not available when using IE browser versions 10 and below.
  6. Add Source: Opens a menu with all the Connectors available to create content sources.
  7. Search: Allows the user search a group or content source by name, also allows regex.
  8. Filters: Manage the content sources that are being displayed on the page.

Features

The following are all the features available on this page.

Content Sources

Introducing a new form of presentation for content sources, creating a more intuitive way to identify and manage each content source

Grouping

A new feature which allows you to group multiple sources of information and arrange them in the category you want, such as by type, category, location, etc.

Filtering

With this feature, the user can filter each content source by activity status, type of source and time ranges

Import

A new and easier way to move content sources Aspire one server to another

Add Sources

A custom menu of source types created with your entitlements, for construction of new sources of content







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