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 has a general layout for all its pages, this layout consist of four sections
Contains Aspire's logo (also a direct link to the Home Page), the title of the current page, and the user name currently logged on and the "Sign out" option. In cases where Aspire doesn't have a security measure configured, instead of the user name the word "Anonymous" will appear
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.
This section holds the main information for each page and it will change depending on the context of the page.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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:
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, ..
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
The Aspire 2.0 UI provides a one page wizard style configuration process to create a complete content source. This page is divided in three main sections, General, Connector and Workflow.
As you can see in the image above, this page seven (7) controls:
The following are all the features available on this page.
Update Connector
Now when a server is connected to internet and a connector has new changes, we can just click the Update Connector button and update the connector
Export
We can save the content source into a zip for to import in another server.
The General section contains basic information regarding a content source, it's name and schedule
As you can see in the image above, this page four (4) controls:
The Connector section has the specific configuration for each content source type, and it is divided in two subsections, Content Source Properties ans Advanced Connector Properties
As you can see in the image above, this page two (2) Subsections:
The Workflow section is the replacement of the Routing Table that was in the Aspire 1.x versions, this new section allows new flexible and dynamic way to create content processing logic, where developer type Aspire administrators can drag and drop rules from a set of libraries to the tree display and build their own content processing logic.
As you can see in the image above, this page two (2) Subsections:
For this section there are four (4) controls:
In this page the user can look at the errors in a more ordered and cleaner way
As you can see in the image above, this page eight (8) general functions:
In this section the user can look in better detail what actions were performed by each of the Content Sources scanners. In order to access the audit logs you have to open the statistics pop-up and clic on "View Audit Logs" as shown:
That link will open the Audit Logs for that specific crawl:
To access this page, click to the settings icon on the main page and select the "Services" option. This page introduces new features which simplify the work of management of services. From this page the user can begin creation, sort, search, filter and view services. This page displays the service "cards" that show current status, start time, errors and more. You can even change each service card's position to one more suitable by dragging the service and drop it over the service you want to swap places with, searching and filtering services cards.
As you can see in the image above, this page has eight (8) general functions:
The following are all the features available on this page.
Services
Introducing a new form of presentation for aspire services, creating a more intuitive way to identify and manage each service
Filtering
With this feature, the user can filter each service by activity status, type of source and time ranges
Import
A new and easier way to move services from one Aspire server to another
Add Service
A custom menu of source types created with your entitlements, for construction of new services
The Aspire 2.1 UI provides a one page wizard style configuration process to create a complete service. This page is divided in three main sections, General, Service and Workflow.
As you can see in the image above, this page seven (7) controls:
The following are all the features available on this page.
Update Service
Now when a server is connected to internet and a service has new changes, we can just click the Update Service button and update the service
Export
We can save the service into a zip for to import in another server.
The General section contains basic information regarding a service, it's name and if is active or not
As you can see in the image above, this page three (3) controls:
The Service section has the specific configuration for each service type.
As you can see in the image above:
The Workflow section is the replacement of the Routing Table that was in the Aspire 1.x versions, this new section allows new flexible and dynamic way to create content processing logic, where developer type Aspire administrators can drag and drop rules from a set of libraries to the tree display and build their own content processing logic.
As you can see in the image above, this page two (2) Subsections:
Note: this section may be shown or not, according a configuration file (workflow-config.xml) inside the service appbundle. Also this file need to match with the pipelines configured in the application.xml for each service.
For this section there are four (4) specific controls:
In this page the user can look at the errors in a more sorted and cleaner way
As you can see in the image above, this page six (6) general functions: