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. It is important that the stylesheets of the Views are visibly different from those for the tables so that users know that they are dealing with a View and not a Table, which structurally isn't so different on first sight.

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?