The Answers Anywhere option enables you to access application content using natural language queries using a browser or mobile device. Answers Anywhere must be enabled in the global.properties.xml file as described in the Unwired Accelerator Administration Guide.
Application Synonyms – allows you to specify alternate terms to identify the application in user queries.
Field Synonyms
Available Fields – fields that should not be used to identify an application in a query. Leave common fields like name and ID in the available list.
Assigned Fields – fields you can use to identify the application. For example, the query “Get manager for John Doe” works only if the “manager” field is in the assigned list. Do not assign common fields like name and ID that may cause ambiguities.
If the application contains grid data, the result of the query displays data only from the column that matches the name used to identify the application. For example, if the application has three columns named firstname, lastname, and phone respectively, and your query is “get phone for Howard,” only the data in the phone column is returned.
Field Synonyms – alternate names for the assigned field, such as “boss” or “supervisor” for the “manager” field.
Parameter Synonyms
Parameters – list of all exposed parameters in the application (the ones you selected in the Parameters window).
Assigned Synonyms – assign alternate names to parameters. For example, a Yahoo stock parameter is called “s,” which has no real meaning, so you can assign a synonym that has more meaning, such as “ticker” or “symbol.”
Check Conflicts – this button launches a window that alerts you to any potential conflicts in synonyms with other applications. Only synonyms that are used to identify an application are checked. In other words, application synonyms are tested against application synonyms and field synonyms from other applications, and field synonyms are tested against the application synonyms and field synonyms of other applications. Parameter synonyms are not checked for conflicts because they are not used to identify applications.
Default Filter Field – specify which field to use as a default when dynamically creating filter rules.
For example, if you have a database application that shows customer names and contact information in one big table in the application and you want to filter out only one company’s data, you must normally create a query that says something like “get CustInfo name Company A,” where name is the header of the name field in the table.
If you set “name” as the default filter field, you can simply say “get CustInfo from Company A” and UA automatically acts upon the “name” field.
Maximum Number of SMS Messages – specify the maximum number of chunks to send if the response content of an SMS query exceeds the 160-character limit and, therefore, must be divided into chunks.
