User guide

Preface
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all, while others require partial to full working knowledge. In Avaki Studio, you can
employ JavaScript in the following circumstances:
• Several operators allow or require you to enter JavaScript control expressions. In
many cases, however, you can construct the expression you need using elements
provided in the menus. See Chapter 7, “Operator reference,” for details on the oper-
ators that accept JavaScript expressions.
• With some working knowledge of Javascript, you can write Javascript functions in
JavaScript include files and call the functions from the JavaScript expressions in
your operators.
• To write a custom operator, you need full working knowledge of JavaScript.
Organization
This book is organized as follows:
Chapter 1
View models in Avaki Studio
Provides an overview of view models, which represent
data flows in Avaki Studio, and their components.
Chapter 2
Getting started with Avaki Studio
Explains how to start Avaki Studio for the first time and
provides a tour of the tools you can use.
Chapter 3
Creating view models
A tutorial that walks you through the process of creating
a view model and deploying it as a data service.
Chapter 4
The view model editor
Shows how to use the view model editor and how to use
JavaScript expressions with operators.
Chapter 5
Metadata modeling
Provides an overview of metadata modeling and
describes tools for creating and using metadata models.
Chapter 6
Managing the data catalog
Describes tasks you can perform in Avaki Studio’s data
catalog view, including modifying access control lists,
creating and modifying attributes, and creating catego-
ries and adding objects to them.
Chapter 7
Operator reference
Provides detailed information on how Avaki Studio’s
operators, Input Source elements, and Result elements
work.
Glossary Defines terms used in this guide