Introduction

AllegroGraph has long used the AGWebView interface, described in the Traditional WebView document. AllegroGraph 8.0.1 introduces a new implementation with a new look and feel, described in this document.

New WebView is what is displayed when AllegroGraph starts up. If you would rather use Traditional WebView, click on the Traditional WebView choice in the menu on the left side of the New WebView page.

Getting to Traditional WebView from New WebView

If you are using Traditional WebView, you get the new version by clicking New WebView on the right in the banner of the traditional WebView page:

New WebView button

Initial Display

Here is the New WebView page when it starts up:

New WebView Initial Page

The exact contents depend on how New WebView was initiated and characteristics and permissions of the user. Always displayed are the banner at the top and a menu list to the left. When first displayed, the main field in the center displays the repositories in the current catalog and some action buttons. Note that what works and sometimes what is displayed depends on the permissions of the current user. If the current user does not have permission to perform a certain action, that fact may be reported on the page or when the users attempts the action. Most pictures are taked when the user had superuser permission, so most illustrations in the document do not show restrictions.

The Banner

The banner, at the top of a New WebView page, is always displayed. It has three active items:

As you navigate among the various New WebView pages, you can always get back to the catalog/repo initial page by clicking on the AllegroGraph logo on the left in the banner.

The repository page

As said, New WebView typically opens to a page listing repositories in the current catalog (usually the root catalog). Along the top to the right are button for creating a new repository in the current catalog and a button for creating an Large Language Model playground (which also creates a new repo). See the llm document for information on the llm playground.

A search widget appears on the upper right, useful when there are very many repos.

The Menus

On the left are a list of applicable menus. The list depends on the permissions of the user. For example, if the user is a superuser, one of the choices will be Admin. The arrowhead next to the menu name points down if the menu is closed and up if open. Clicking on the menu name or arrowhead changes the state.

How to use the various menu items is usually clear once the menu is displayed so we will not go into too much detail in the document.

The catalog list

Catalogs are listed under the file folder icon to the left just under the AllegroGraph icon. There is always a root and a fedshard catalog. Other catalogs must be defined by you (our your administrator) and listed in a agraph.cfg configuration file (see the Server Configuration and Control document). Clicking on a catalog name displays the repositories (also called repos) in the catalog.

The Repository Menu

The Repository menu is only active when a repo is open. Click on an existing repo listed on the page or the Create Repository box to create a new one. (Its drop down menu also allows restoring a repo from a backup file.)

Once a repo is open and the menu is live, you will see these items:

More on the Query page

As said above, queries can be saved. Recent queries are listed at the top of the page but these will go away unless saved (when for example, the page is reloaded).

If you hover over the Execute Button, two additional choices appear: Plan and Log. Click on Plan to see the query plan (what the system intends to do when executing the query). The plan will also display warnings if there are any. Log will cause the query ro be logged.

The Admin menu

This menu is only visible to superusers. It has the following items:

The Utilities menu

Available to all users

Other items