Release Notes - 4.1 - AO Easy Answers
Intended audience: ALL USERS
AO Easy Answers: 4.1
Release Date
September 2024
Overview
Release 4.1 builds on previous 3.x and 4.0 releases of the AO Easy Answers solution.
The 4.1 release continues to have a strong focus on UI and functional enhancements to the AO Easy Answers solution.
This topic includes a high-level introduction to the enhancements made during this release.
New in Release
AO Easy Answers
Insights page
New Infographic-style Quick Insight cards have been added.
Content on the page can now be sorted according to the recency of Insights or based on Ratings of the content. See Insights Page.
Dashboards page
Ability to create Sections for greater organization of Apps in Dashboards. See Dashboards Page.
Ability to configure Basic and/or Advanced Filters at Dashboard and at Section level. See Dashboards Page.
Option to Schedule Downloading of Data in Dashboards.
Download from one or more Apps.
Schedule a named download of Data.
Send Desktop and Email notifications for generated Downloads.
Ability to Export and Import Public Dashboards - using the AO Platform Transport format.
Quick Insights
New and updated Quick Insights. See Quick Insights.
Correlation Quick Insights - now supports two different Models: Pearson and Robust.
Reorganized Single- and Multi Time-Series Quick Insights - now grouped with Common Properties and some individual properties for easier (and consistent) configuration.
New Causal Inference Quick Insight - ability to create Insight that will model the impact of some variable based on some factor (treatment) and influenced by other supporting factors (control variables).
New Spatial Correlation Quick Insight - ability to create Insight that will model the correlation of some variable (cluster of activity) relative to geographic distance and/or to other clusters of activities.
Easy Answers page
Annotating Word in Question - new Topic Rule-based Value when adding Synonym from Annotating an NLQ.
Much improved implementation of Easy Answers used in “AI Enhanced” mode. This means that all Easy Answers questions will be taking help from a Generative AI LLM service, such as OpenAI to improve the interpretation of user questions and the ultimate translation and validation through advanced LLM prompts. This leads to a better understanding of more complex questions and ultimately optimizing the responses on the Easy Answers Results page. Some key features related to “AI Enhanced” mode:
Improved user interaction - the user will be prompted to clarify anything that is not understood in a user question, including selecting from possible suggestions, such as available properties, or values for properties.
Provide feedback - the user will be able to use Thumbs up/down to more easily influence future LLM related responses.
The Chatbot now supports replies to previous questions - forming separate threads.
Two additional entries will be available in the Options menu:
Explain Query Reasoning - a dialog that shows the “chain of thought” for why LLM responded to the query. See Explaining Query Reasoning.
View Sourcing Information - a dialog that shows sourcing information for the generated query (data lineage). This is especially useful if federated data sources are configured. See Viewing Sourcing Information.
For some complex/advanced questions that cannot be fully validated/resolved, the user may receive an “AI Response Table” instead of the usual results page of Apps. Such AI Response Tables can be converted into XY Charts using the Customize App feature.
Table Apps - if enabled in MSO Composer, it’s now possible to view the GEOM property in tables as proper coordinates.
Content Repositories
Improved search performance and results across large amounts of documents due to improved indexing and Entity Extraction functionality. See Search in Content Repositories.
Documentation
Documentation entry in the User menu in software has been split into sub-sections to more easily access AO Easy Answers content and AO Platform-related content including APIs.
Updated the Open Source Library list included with AO Platform and AO Easy Answers as of September 2024.
The product documentation can also be accessed from outside the software. However, the documentation is not publicly available, a token is required to access it unless accessed from within the AO Platform UI in the User menu. Use the following URLs:
Easy Answers: https://docs-easyanswers.apporchid.com
AO Platform: https://docs.apporchid.com
Deprecations/Removals
None
System Requirements
For workstation system requirements, see System Requirements.