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# Front-End Applications

There are a variety of applications that provide a user interface through which you can access, customize, search, and modify data in your IDOL system.

HPE Find and BIFHI are provided as part of the IDOL Server installer. Find provides a basic end-user search interface for HPE IDOL, and BIFHI provides the search interface with some additional functionality. There are also several HPE applications that use HPE IDOL for different business purposes, such as archiving, data mining, and eDiscovery. For more information, contact your Account Manager.

In addition, you can create custom front-end applications to use your HPE IDOL data.

## Find

Find is a basic end-user search interface for HPE IDOL.

Find supports the following functionality:

- Advanced search. Refine searches by database, date, or parametric values.
- Document preview. HPE IDOL uses the IDOL View component to render near-native views of the source documents for your search results in a web browser. The Document Preview feature works with View server and documents in source repositories.
- Query manipulation. Synonym and blacklist rules are applied when the IDOL Query Manipulation Service is used as a back end for your search. You can use IDOL Search Optimizer to create and manage these rules.
- Results manipulation. Pin-to-position promotions are applied when the IDOL Query Manipulation Service is used as a back end for your search. You can use IDOL Search Optimizer to create and manage these promotions.
- Results augmentation. Spotlight promotions are applied when the IDOL Query Manipulation Service is used as a back end for your search. You can use IDOL Search Optimizer to create and manage these promotions.
- Document security. You can set up document security so that only permitted users can access the documents, or even see them in search results.

## BIFHI

Business Intelligence for Human Information (BIFHI) is an end-user search interface for HPE IDOL.

BIFHI supports the following functionality:

- Advanced search. Refine searches by database, date, or parametric values.
- Document preview. HPE IDOL uses the IDOL View component to render near-native views of the source documents for your search results in a web browser. The Document Preview feature works with View server and documents in source repositories.
- Document security. You can set up document security so that only permitted users can access the documents, or even see them in search results.

- Saved Searches. You can save searches and run them again later, create snapshots of saved searches, or compare two or more saved searches.

- Results visualizers. View your results as topic maps or sunburst charts as well as in list format.

- Integration with HPE MMAP. BIFHI is integrated with HPE Media Management and Analysis Platform (MMAP), a media analytics platform designed for viewing, searching, and analyzing video and audio data, including object detection, scene analysis, face recognition and audio transcripts.

- Document metadata display. You can view the metadata associated with the documents you are viewing.

## Custom Front-End Applications

The ACI (Autonomy Content Infrastructure) Client API allows you to create your own custom front-end applications.

The ACI API enables easy communication between custom-built applications and HPE IDOL ACI servers, as well as simple manipulation of the results sets. IDOL SDKs are available for several programming languages, including C, Java, and .NET.

For more information, refer to the ACI API Programming Guide.

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