Knowledge Discovery 26.3
Getting Started Guide

# Front-End Applications

Front-end applications provide a user interface through which you can access, customize, search, and modify data in your Knowledge Discovery system.

Find provides a customizable end-user search interface for Knowledge Discovery. It optionally includes additional Business Information functionality, such as visualizations and search comparisons, in the Business Information for Human Intelligence (BIFHI) extension.

There are also several applications that use Knowledge Discovery for different business purposes, such as archiving, data mining, and eDiscovery. For more information, contact your Account Manager.

In addition, you can create custom front-end applications to use your Knowledge Discovery data.

## Find

Find is a basic end-user search interface for Knowledge Discovery. It also includes Business Information for Human Intelligence (BIFHI), which provides additional business information tools for users with the appropriate permissions.

Find supports the following functionality:

- Advanced search. Refine searches by database, date, or parametric values.
- Document preview. Find uses the View component to render near-native views of the source documents for your search results in a web browser. The Document Preview feature works with View server and documents in source repositories.
- Query manipulation. Find applies synonym and blacklist rules when you use Query Manipulation Server (QMS) as a back end for your search. You can use Data Admin to create and manage these rules (see Data Admin).
- Results manipulation. Find applies pin-to-position promotions when you use QMS as a back end for your search. You can use Data Admin to create and manage these promotions (see Data Admin).
- Results augmentation. Find applies spotlight promotions when you use the QMS as a back end for your search. You can use Data Admin to create and manage these promotions (see Data Admin).
- Document security. You can set up document security so that only users with appropriate permissions can access the documents, or even see them in search results.
- Visualizations. You can view results as topic maps, sunburst charts, maps, or in table format, as well as in list format.
- Save searches. You can save searches and run them again later, save a result set as a snapshot, or compare two or more saved searches.

NOTE: Visualizations, saved searches, and comparisons are available only to users with the FindBI role. For more information, refer to the Find Installation Guide.

## Custom Front-End Applications

The ACI (Autonomy Content Infrastructure) Client API allows you to create your own custom front-end applications.

The ACI API enables easy communication between custom-built applications and Knowledge Discovery ACI servers, as well as simple manipulation of the results sets. Knowledge Discovery components accept standard HTTP(S) requests and return XML or JSON data, as requested.

Optional Knowledge Discovery SDKs are available for several programming languages, including C, Java, and .NET.

For more information, refer to the ACI API Programming Guide.

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