Developer Guides and Tutorials

Core Functionality Walkthroughs

These pages provide useful information for using the API calls. It also provides an introduction to platform concepts of interest to developers.

• Overview of the query process. Describes how to query the platform and the objects that can be returned (documents, entities, associations, aggregations etc.)
• Overview of the source configuration process. Describes how sources are configured to ingest data into the platform.
• Overview of documents and aggregations. Describes high-level concepts concerning documents and their aggregation.
• Community ID regular expression usage:  Some functions allow sending regular expressions for the community ids, to make hand-crafted requests easier.

Widget Framework

• Setting up your environment. See IKANOW Widget and Plugin Use
• Writing your first widget. See Writing your first IKANOW Widget
• Special widget information. See Special Widget Information
• Uploading the completed widget to the GUI framework.
• The complete Widget API.
• Interacting with the API. See API Documentation
• Override the GUI setup from the URL

Learning With Videos and Blog Posts

Blogs

• Data Visualization with Protovis and IKANOW API

Videos