Getting Started

Logging In & The Dashboard

Log into AMI with the provided user name and password (default user/password is demo/demo123)

After logging into AMI, choose a layout style (Default Style is shown)

After selecting a style, you will move onto the new dashboard

On the dashboard you will see 1) a Layout Editor toggle button in the upper right corner, 2) a menu bar at the top, and 3) the workbook area below where you add layout components

1. Layout Editor Toggle Button

(Hotkey: CTRL + D)

AMI dashboard builder has two modes. When the Layout Editor is turned on, you have access to tools and functionality for editing the dashboard.

Note: if you do not see the Layout Editor Button, your user account is not entitled for building layouts.

The Windows menu will have an option to add New Windows and to Manage Windows
There will be a new Dashboard menu item for accessing tools
All existing panels will have a green button for accessing that panel's settings

2. The Menu

File: manage saving and loading of dashboards
Account: control your personal settings and preferences
Windows: access, manage, and create windows
Help: get AMI version, Runtime settings, and list of available script methods, etc.
Dashboard (in Layout Editor mode): access tools and functionality for building out the dashboard

(Clicking on the 3Forge icon will open up 3Forge's website in a new tab)

3. The Workbook

This is where the dashboard is presented as it is built or loaded

Creating Your First Visualization

Creating a visualization can be summarized into 3 steps:

1. Create a window to put your visualization in 2. Connect to the data using the Data Modeler 3. Select how you want to visualize your data

Let's demonstrate this by creating a table. Before proceeding,

1. After logging into AMI, enter Layout Editor mode by toggling the Layout Editor mode to ON (found on the upper right corner).

(Hotkey: CTRL + D)

2. The dashboard will now have a grid over the work area and a prompt telling you to click on the Windows menu will appear.

3. Select New Window from the drop down options in order to create a new window with a blank panel

4. Click on the green button in order to access the panel's options and select Create Table/Visualization Form

5. This will open up the visualization wizard. The first step of the wizard is the Data Modeler, which is the primary way of connecting to the data you want to visualize.

6. At the top of the Data Modeler, click on Attach Datasource in order to connect to a database containing your data. This will open up the Add Datasource window. In our example, we will be connecting to a MySQL database. Fill out the necessary fields and click on the Add Datasource button

7. A successful connection will show a similar prompt.

8. Next, you will see all of the tables that are accessible in the datasource. Select the table you would like to visualize. You can use the search function in datasources containing many tables.

9. You will then be taken to the editing portion of the Data Modeler. Here, you can 'massage' the data in preparation for use in the visualization. If you are ready, click on Test. If everything is working and there are no errors, click on Next.

10. In the final portion of the visualization wizard, you will select the kind of visualization you would like to create in the panel. In our example, we will create a table by selecting the Table icon and clicking on Finish.

11. In place of a blank panel, we now have our table

In summary - using the visualization wizard, we first created a Datamodel based on a table found in the datasource. We then edited the Datamodel in the Datamodel editor before finally using it to create a table. Many of the topics in this tutorial will be covered in greater detail throughout the GUI documentation.

Creating a Relationship Between Visualizations

Continuing from the previous section, we will build a second visualization and establish a relationship between two panels (two visualizations).

1. Click on the panel configuration button of the created table and select Add Panel > Right in order to create a empty panel to the right side of the table.

Note: use the divider in order to adjust the size of the panels. You can also adjust the size of the window

2. Click on the new panel's configuration button and follow the steps of the previous section up to the final step of the visualization wizard. This time, we will select 2D Chart in the wizard

3. Selecting 2D Chart opens up another set of options - select Scatter Plot and then click on Create Chart in order to open the chart wizard

4. Under DATA SERIES, click on the of the X & Y fields in order to see the variables that can be used. After selecting the desired variables, click on Refresh in order to preview the chart.

Note: Scatter is one of the ready-made chart options - with many of the fields pre-populated and only requiring X & Y values. Advanced contains all of the options that can be configured on a chart. Adding Labels can be done in the Advanced section.

5. Click Finish in order to return to the dashboard and to view the chart.

6. AMI allows you to easily correlate the two visualizations by creating a relationship between the two panels - a source and a target. In order to create a relationship, click on the configuration button of the target panel (Country2/chart) and select Add Relationship.

7. An arrow will appear from the configuration button. Move to the source panel (Country/table) and click on the configuration button in order to establish the relationship.

8. Once established, a relationship menu will appear. Use this menu to select the variables that the relationship will use to correlate between the two visualizations. A variable that is available on both visualizations must be used in order to correctly maintain the relationship. In our example, we will use the Code variable found in both tables.

9. With a relationship between the two visualizations, selecting rows from the table will now display correlated points on the scatter plot.

In summary - we established a second panel in a single window and created a chart on this new panel. We then created a relationship between the table and the chart in order to show a correlation between the two visualizations.

Handling relationship between two panels driven by non-AMI Database data models

Note that if you are creating a relationship between two panels whose underlying data models' datasource is non-AMI, you have to manually add ${WHERE} to the end of your where (or the equivalent in that database's syntax) statement. For example, running a relationship between two Oracle powered data model requires additional input in the format of where ${WHERE} or where CONDITION1 and/or ${where}, etc...

Moreover, in the relationship field, you must adhere to the syntax of the non-AMI database for the use of quotes for string. For example, AMI database uses double quotes for string, but Oracle DB mandates single quotes.

Styles

For any visualizations, you can click on the green setting button and access the styling options for that panel by clicking Style. Also in that style section, you can click on the names of the styles and a code will show up. You can set the style programmatically in the datamodeler or in any AMI callbacks by first calling getStyleSet() on any panel object, assign it to a variable, then use the styleSet's setValue(string code, string value) method to set the style.

Ex:

styleset ss = myTablePanel.getStyleSet();

ss.setValue("tableFontFm", "Courier"); // returns true/false.

Style Codes for AMISCRIPT

Here is a complete list of style codes that you may use in an AMI editor or callbacks:

Code prefix:

Table -> table

2D Chart -> chart

3D Chart -> chart3d

HTML panel -> form

Tree -> treegrid

Map -> map

Cell (table)/Body (treegrid)

Ex: tableFontFm/treegridFontFm

Font = FontFm

Background color = BgCl

Label/Font Color = FontCl

Row Height = RowHt

Font Size = FontSz

Gray Bar Color = GraybarCl

Bottom Border/ Cell Bottom Border = CellBtmPx

Right Border/ Cell Right Border = CellRtPx

Border Color/ Cell Border Color = CellBdrCl

Cell Horizontal Padding = CellPadHt

Vertical Align = VtAlign

Values (chart)

Font = chartFontFam

Font Style = chartFontSt

Background Color = chartBgCl

Selected Color = chartSelCl

Select Box Color = chartSelBoxCl

Selection Box Border Color = chartSelBoxBrdCl

Divider Color = chartDivCl

Horizontal Divider Size = chartDivThckH

Vertical Divider Size = chartDivThckV

Options Slider Fields Color = chartScrCl

Partition Colors = chartSeriesCls

Gradient Colors = chartGradient

General (chart3d)

Background Color = chart3dBgCl

Selection Color = chart3dSelCl

Label Color = chart3dFontCl

Control Button Color = chart3dCtrlBtnsCl

Control Buttons = chart3dHideCtrls

Column Header (table)

Background Color = tableHeaderBgCl

Font Color = tableHeaderFontCl

Height = tableHeaderHt

Font Size = tableHeaderFontSz

Hide Divider = tableHeaderDivHide

Column Filters (table/treegrid)

Hide Column Filters = ColumnFilterHide

Height = ColumnFilterHeight

Background Color = ColumnFilterBgCl

Font Color = ColumnFilterFontCl

Font Size = ColumnFilterFontSz

Border Color = ColumnFilterBdrCl

Selection (table/treegrid)

Selected Color = SelCl

Active Color = ActCl

Search Bar (table)

Hide = tableSearchHide

Divider Color = table SearchBarDivCl

Background Color = tableSearchBgCl

Font Color = tableSearchFontCl

Search Field Color = tableSearchFldCl

Search Field Border Color = tableSearchFldBdrCl

Search Field Font Color = tableSearchFldFontCl

Button Color = tableSearchBtnsCl

Search Bar (treegrid)

Hide = treegridSearchHide

Background Color = treegridSearchBgCl

Search Field Font Color = treegridSearchFldFontCl

Search Field Border Color = treegridSearchFldBdrCl

Button Color = treegridSearchBtnsCl

Filtered Header (table/treegrid)

Background Color = FiltBgCl

Font Color = FiltFontCl

Style (form)

Font Color = formFontCl

Background Color = formBgCl

Show Buttons Panel = formShowBtmBtns

Field (form)

Background Color = formFldBgCl

Font Color = formFldFontCl

Font Family = formFldFontFam

Font Size = formFldFontSz

Primary Color = formFldPrimCl

Secondary Color = formFldSecCl

Border Color = formFldBdrCl

Label (form)

Label Padding = formLblPd

Font Size = formFontSz

Text Alignment = formTxtAlign

Rotate HTML = formRotate

Font Family = formFontFam

Is Bold = formBold

Is Italic = formItalic

Is Underline = formItalic

Show Label = formFldLblStatus

Side = formFldLblSide

Alignment = formFldLblAlign

Field CSS (form)

Checkbox = formFldCssCheck

Date = formFldCssDate

Daterange = formFldCssDateRng

Datetime = formFldCssDateTime

Div = formFldCssDiv

Button = formFldCssBtn

Image = formFldCssImg

Multiselect = formFldCssMultiSel

Range = formFldCssRng

Select = formFldCssSel

SubRange = formFldCssSubRng

TextArea = formFldCssTxtArea

Text = formFldCssTxt

Time = formFldCssTime

Timerange = formFldCssTimeRng

Upload = formFldCssUpload

Font Family (heatmap)

Font Family = heatmapFontFam

Grouping (heatmap)

Font Size = heatmapGroupFontSz

Font Color = heatmapGroupFontCl

Border Size = heatmapGroupBdrSz

Border Color = heatmapGroupBdrCl

Background Color = heatmapGroupBgCl

Nodes (heatmap)

Font Size = heatmapNodeFontSz

Font Size = heatmapNodeFontCl

Border Size = heatmapNodeBdrSz

Border Color = heatmapNodeBdrCl

Color Gradient = heatmapNodeGradient

Alignment = heatmapTxtAlign

Vertical Alignment = heatmapVtAlign

Select (heatmap)

Border Color 1 = heatmapSelBdrCl1

Border Color 2 = heatmapSelBdrCl2

Header (treegrid)

Hide Header Bar = treegridHeaderBarHide

Hide Divider Bar = treegridHeaderDivHide

Background Color = treegridHeaderBgCl

Font Color = treegridHeaderFontCl

Header Height = treegridHeaderHt

Font Size = treegridHeaderFontSz

Scroll Bar Colors (chart3d)

X Color = chart3dScrXCl

Y Color = chart3dScrYCl

Z Color = chart3dScrZCl

Zoom Color = chart3dScrZoomCl

FOV Color = chart3dScrFOVCl

X Position Color = chart3dScrXPosCl

Y Position Color = chart3dScrYPosCl

Partition Colors = chart3dSeriesCls

Gradient Colors = chart3dGradient

Selection Box (map)

Color = mapboxSelCl

Border Color = mapboxSelBdrCl

ScrollBar Options (table, chart3d, form, treegrid)

Ex: tableScrollWd

Width = ScrollWd

Grip Color = ScrollGripCl

Track Color = ScrollTrackCl

Button Color = ScrollBtnCl

Icons Color = ScrollIconsCl

Border Color = ScrollBdrCl

Visualization Title (table/chart3d/chart/form/treegrid/map)

Ex: tableTitlePnlFontFm

Font = TitlePnlFontFm

Font Size = TitlePnlFontSz

Alignment = TitlePnlAlign

Title Color = TitlePnlFontCl

Visualization Padding (table/chart3d/chart/form/treegrid/map)

Ex: tablePdLfPx

Left = PdLfPx

Right = PdRtPx

Top = PdTpPx

Bottom = PdBtmPx

Top-Left Radius = PdRadTpLfPx

Top-Right Radius = PdRadTpRtPx

Bottom-Left Radius = PdRadBtmLfPx

Bottom-Right Radius= PdRadBtmRtPx

Color = PdCl

Visualization Shadow (table/chart3d/chart/form/treegrid/map)

Ex: chart3dPdShadowHzPx

Horizontal = PdShadowHzPx

Vertical = PdShadowVtPx

Size = PdShadowSzPx

Color = PdShadowCl

Visualization Border (table/chart3d/chart/form/treegrid/map)

Ex: formPdBdrSzPx

Size = PdBdrSzPx

Color = PdBdrCl

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