Wiki source code of 09. Glossary of Terms
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| 11 | API | ||
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| 14 | Application programming interface. In [[CXAIR>>doc:Technical Documentation.CXAIR.WebHome]], using APIs allows third-party data, such as Google Maps information, to be incorporated into [[reporting>>doc:Technical Documentation.CXAIR.User Guide.02\. Reporting.WebHome]]. | ||
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| 18 | Build Type / Index Method | ||
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| 21 | Refreshing or rebuilding an Index results in the latest data being made available to users. The specified build type / Index method will change how this is accounted for: | ||
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| 24 | **Complete** | ||
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| 27 | The entire Index is rebuilt. | ||
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| 33 | New and changed records are added as new rows. This maintains the history of a record that may have changed over time. No de-duplication is applied. An **Incremental Identifier** is required to denote which field is used to identify a change. | ||
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| 36 | **Timeline** | ||
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| 39 | Allows the building of ‘point in time’ Indexes, where comparisons between the data can be made. | ||
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| 45 | New records are added as new rows and changed records are amended to deduplicate the same record when an **Incremental Identifier** and **Primary Key** are set. | ||
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| 49 | CXAIR | ||
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| 52 | Connexica Ad hoc Interactive Reporter. | ||
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| 56 | Data Source | ||
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| 59 | The origin of the data. When configuring a Data Source, the data type is chosen and the relevant connection details / location is established. | ||
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| 63 | Data Source Group | ||
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| 66 | Data Source Groups group Data Sources together. Part of the configuration of a Data Source Group is to specify the physical location of the Index files to be held on disk. | ||
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| 70 | Drill Down | ||
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| 73 | Access the underlying records that constitute a [[report>>doc:Technical Documentation.CXAIR.User Guide.02\. Reporting.WebHome]] or [[Query>>doc:Technical Documentation.CXAIR.User Guide.02\. Reporting.2a\. Query.WebHome]]. | ||
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| 77 | Index | ||
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| 80 | Indexes group Data Source Groups together and act as the presentation layer that determines how ends users view and query the information. | ||
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| 84 | Lucene | ||
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| 87 | Apache Lucene is [[CXAIR>>doc:Technical Documentation.CXAIR.WebHome]]’s underpinning data retrieval technology. | ||
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| 91 | RegEX | ||
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| 94 | Regular Expression. Allows structure to be derived from unstructured data. | ||
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| 98 | Search Engine | ||
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| 101 | Search Engines group Indexes together to create a logical collection of searchable data. Any implementation can have any number of Search Engines. Search Engines are the easiest way of partitioning up data from a security perspective, as administrators can restrict which Search Engines a user, or group of users, has access to. | ||
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| 105 | SQL | ||
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| 108 | Structured query language. Used to extract from and manage databases. In [[CXAIR>>doc:Technical Documentation.CXAIR.WebHome]], this task is achieved through [[natural language search>>doc:Technical Documentation.CXAIR.User Guide.02\. Reporting.2a\. Query.WebHome]] and user-friendly interfaces. | ||
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