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Objectives:
The new learning objectives of this exercise are to create a repository connection to a VOLTA repository on the Syndeia Web Dashboard (SWD), view the repository including properties, relations, and search, and create a reference connection.
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Preparation:
This exercise assumes the student has
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See Video 1.9 for an introduction to the Syndeia Web Dashboard.
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Background -
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Volta:
As envisioned by Intercax, the Digital Thread is composed of inter-model connections between models in different repositories, which Syndeia creates and manages, and intra-model connections between elements in the same repository, which the individual tool creates and manages. As of Syndeia release 3.5, the Syndeia Web Dashboard can extract and display some model information from the VOLTA repository. Figure 1 shows a tree view of this information, with labels identifying the VOLTA element types. Note the different icons. The label color coding indicates how the VOLTA element type is mapped to the Syndeia Cloud element types: Repository (green), Container (red), and Artifact (blue).
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Figure 1: Tree view of VOLTA repository
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Exercise:
Log on to the Syndeia Cloud Web Dashboard (see Video 1.9) and click on the Repositories icon on the left border (Figure 2).
Figure 2 : SWD Repositories page (initial) – Repositories icon outlined in red
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In the Search window, use VOLTA Simple or VOLTA Advanced from the Select type pull down menu.
From the Select item type pull down menu, select the VOLTA artifact type to be searched for. In our example in Figure 7, this is Folder.
Using VOLTA Simple to Search by text, enter a text string in the Name Contains field from the name of the VOLTA folder to search for. In our example, we entered DEMO and clicked Search. The result(s) of the search are shown on the right, as in Figure 7.
To Search by ID, enter a text string with the VOLTA ID in the ID field. The version-independent VOLTA ID is the same as the externalKey on the Details page (Figure 6).
If you select the VOLTA Advanced option before searching, you may enter a query in VQL (VOLTA Query Language) for the search. See VOLTA documentation for a discussion of VQL.
Click the Search icon again to close the Search window.
Figure 7 : SWD Repositories page, Search feature (Search icon and search result highlighted in red)
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In the Relations window (Figure 8), you will see a list of Inter-model relations, from the selected VOLTA item to other non-VOLTA models, and a list of Intra-model relations, from the selected VOLTA item to other VOLTA items in the same VOLTA repository. In this example, there are one Inter-model relations to a file in GitHub.
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Figure 8 : Syndeia Web Dashboard Repositories page, Relations lists (Relations and Add icons highlighted in red)
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