Blocks

Home-/Workspace-Block

Starting point for the user. Lets the user create, open, search new Views/Tables/Workspaces? etc. and manages the user-account (in the home-block) or workspace-information (in the workspace-block). These Blocks cannot be closed and also only exist once per Homepage/Workspace?.

Search-Block

Searching for public tables, views, maps and browsing the search results with preview.

Table-Block

Viewing and Editing (depending on access rights) of Tables.

Displays:

• Table
• Table-MetaData?

Functions:

• Browse through the data with pagination, sorting and filtering (datatables plugin for jquery)
• Show/Hide? the different Columns
• Create a View starting with the visible columns of the current Table
• add or remove columns and lines of data
• import data from a file (CSV)
• export data to a file (CSV)

View-Block

Viewing and Editing (depending on access rights) of Views.

Displays:

• View
• View-Metadata
• Overview of used tables and their owners

Functions:

• View/Edit/Create? the View
• for a demonstration of how View-creation should work, see ​the View Workflow Demo

Map-Block

Viewing and Editing (depending on access rights) of Maps created from Tables/Views?.

Displays:

• Map
• mapping information (what information is used for mapping in what way?)
• mapping property definitions (if e.g. ColumnA defines the color of the dots displayed on the map, which value of ColumnA will result in a red dot, which in a blue dot etc.)

Functions:

• View/Edit? the map properties
• Fix and save the map, export as image?