Content Views

Content Views are how users can interact with indexed content in Discovery UI. They also allow for administrators to control who can access the view. Content views can be found under the Federation menu in 3Sixty Admin.

This page will list all of your available Content Views.

Action

Description

View

Will show you all of the connector details

Reorder

Drag the widgets up or down to chose the order in which they are displayed

Edit

Allows you to edit the view

Copy

Will create a copy of the connection

Delete

Will permanently delete the connection. If this connection is being used in any jobs or content views it cannot be deleted


Creating a View

Views can be created under Federation > Content Views. The following information is needed to create a new view.

  • Short Name: The key for the view. Only accepts alphanumeric characters, underscored and dashes (URL legal characters). This will be used as part of the url.

    Tip:  EXAMPLE
    If the shortname is 'test' and the template is 'search', the url will be /3sixty-discovery/view/search/test

  • Template: Which view template to use. Federated Search, Clustering or Reporting Dashboard Templates.

  • Display Name (Optional): Enter the name you want displayed for this view in the views drop-down and in the views list in the left navigation menu. If no display name has been entered Discovery will use the short name.

  • Select a Search Connection: Select the Content Search Connection the view will use to perform searches and collate results. Views can be saved without a Search Connection set, but they cannot be published.


Configuring Views

View Builder

Sections: The sections of the view, as defined by the template. The default SearchTemplate has three sections. Left Sidebar, Body, and Top Menu.

Available Widgets: The widget instances of types allowed for the section.

Section Widgets: The widgets in the section

Controls

Use the following controls to add remove and reorder the widgets for your content view.

Action

Description

Add Add the widget to the section
Info Widget information panel. It allows you to update the properties of the instance

Reorder

Drag the widgets up or down to chose the order in which they are displayed

Delete

Remove the widget from the section

Configuration

Field

Description

Short Name

The short name of the view.

Display Name

Display name of the view.

Connector

Search connector the view will use.

Search on page load

The view will perform its base query (as configured on the search connection) when the page is first loaded.

Security

View Users: Users and groups who can access this view. Leave blank to allow all users to see this view.

This list applies to both the Admin and Discovery apps. The ADMIN role will not bypass this list.

Important:   When you are making changes to Discovery by adding connectors and content views you may need to Refresh Content Service. You can do this by navigating to the Discovery UI Config by selecting the drop don from the profile link in the top right. Then select the Refresh Content Service Cache button.


Content View Examples

Discovery can be customised in various ways using the content view builder. Following are some examples of the types of views you can build for different result sets.



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