1. September 12-14, 2018
Raleigh, NC

2. Plugins - Extending your Informer
Andrew Morovati
Chief Solutions Architect

3. Overview Overview of Informer What plugins are. Why they matter.
Some examples
Installation
Discussion

4. Informer Overview - the guts
All Javascript - UI and back end
NodeJS
AngularJS
Web server HAPI - plugin based
Common configuration in one place
Stateless

5. What are plugins? Extensions to Informer Written in Javascript
Full access to persistence and UI

6. Why do plugins matter?
While Informer is fantastic on its own, it gets even better with customizations.
Plugins can:
Streamline your business practices.
Expose business data to new insights.
Leverage existing security rules.
Provide APIs for software integration.

7. Plugin Examples Look and feel User Domains Visualizations Data Export
Row-level data security
Flow-steps
Datasources

8. Look and Feel
Custom Logo
Colors in the UI
Fonts

9. Custom User Domains Authentication or Authorization
Authentication: user provides a credential
Simple Example
Authorization: 3rd party verifies the user’s identity
OAUTH - need a public server
Supply Informer with user information.
Can come from anywhere
Optionally provide token-based direct login, bypassing the login form entirely

10. Visualizations
Charts
Bubble Chart
Maps
Seating Map

11. Data Export Specific format for scheduled job export (like FTP)
Custom Format (example)

12. Row-level data security
Attach filters to a dataset, that cannot be altered, depending on the user.
All the data can be obtained in one query
Any view of the dataset will be filtered
Attach criteria to an ad-hoc query to limit row selection.

13. Flow steps Alter the stream of data from source to index
Plugins can wrap up calculations and transformations into an easy-to-use flow step.
Plugins can expose javascript libraries to calculations

14. Datasources Static external datasets or feeds
Most can be staged into a workspace
Proprietary datasources can be connected to Informer with at least an all or nothing retrieval scheme.

15. More examples
Date parser/formatter: Turn into , and back.
Permission restrictions: Remove menu items for certain classes of users (e.g. Workspace creation)
Call external APIs when system events occur.

16. Installation
Entrinsik’s plugins: npm plugin} at the command line in the installation directory (or docker container)
Your own plugin is placed in the “plugins” directory.
All configuration for all plugins goes in “config.json”
Informer then needs a restart.

17. QUESTIONS?