Overview
This toolkit element enables the generation of one or more types of entity based on the document or content metadata. The expressions default to replacement strings, or $SCRIPT(...) can be used to return a string using javascript.
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], "mediaType": ["Social"],
"metadata": {"json": [{
"actor": {
"displayName": "CRM Buddy",
"followersCount": "245",
"friendsCount": "0",
"id": "id:twitter.com:835627776",
"image": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2630355549/8cad59efaddd57283dbb159332336744_normal.jpeg",
"languages": ["en"],
"link": "http://www.twitter.com/FocalCRM",
"links": [{"rel": "me"}],
"listedCount": "6",
"objectType": "person",
"postedTime": "2012-09-20T13:59:56.000Z",
"preferredUsername": "FocalCRM",
"statusesCount": "3688",
"summary": "",
"verified": "false"
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Extracting Entities From Arrays with iterateOver
You can use iterateOver to create an entity for each object in an array.
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In the example above the iterateOver value is set to "victim" meaning that the Structured Analysis Harvester Manual Entities will iterate (or loop) over the metadata.victim[] objects and create an entity for each object in the array.
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You can still throw errors from the script by checking if "(_iterator==null)" if you want to) This enables writing objects that will handle fields being either primitives or objects (eg by checking vs _iterator and _value).
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Specifying Entity Geographic Location
It is also possible to set values for entity parameters using Javascript functions declared in Globals.
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