Activities
Overview
Activities
is an Altergo feature allowing the user to label specific timeframes of an entity's lifetime.
Multiple entities of different nature can participate to the same activity.
Each activity is bound by a start time and an end time.
The user can assign activities for each functionality to contextualize sensor data
The highlighted yellow rectangle is where the activities are visualized.
Browse
The Search
bar on the platform enables the user to search for a specific activity among the existing ones. The user can serach for the activity by the Name
of the activity, Tags
, or Asset
as the keyword to narrow down the search results.
Filters
The user can sort activities within the platform by applying filters as key: value pairs. The available filter keys are
Name
(name of activity)Tag
Assets
Metadata Key
Metadata Value
Start Date
End Date
The user can add values corresponding to the filter keys to pick out the desired activity.
Date selectors
Date Selector
enables the user to get all the activities in the desired period of time. Along with predefined time periods, the user can create a custom range by specifying the start date and end date.
Create
In this article, the activity is created on the platform using its user interface.
Alternatively, the user can use the software development kit of Altergo to create activities.
To create datasets using the platform:
1.Click on Activities
2.Click on Create activity
- Add activity
Name
- Add activity
Description
- Add activity
Start date
- Add activity
End date
- Add
Tags
- Add
Asssets
- Add
Location
. Affixing theLocation
details with an activity enables the user to get site details where this operation is being done. - Add
Metadata
. Metadata can be added in a combination of "key" and "value" pair. It is used to add additional information about the activity itself e.g. if you want to create a lifecycle test activity then you can save the operator's name as the metadata. - Click on
Create activity
Adding Metadata
is optional
Actions
The user can execute certain actions on the existing activities. These include Edit
, Clone
and Delete
Edit 🖆
The platform enables the user to Edit
an existing activity. Click on the 🖆 icon to open the editing page. The Edit Activity
page holds the same UI of create activity page.
Clone ❏
Clone enables the user to create identical replicas of an existing activity. Click on the ❏ icon to open the clone page.Clone Activity
has all the UI of create activity page with the parameter values same as that of the corresponding activity
Delete 🗑
The user is able to delete an activity. Click on the 🗑 icon to permenently delete an existing activity
Visualize
The user can visualize activities linked with an asset using the visualization tool of the Altergo platform. Click on the 👁 icon in the asset column corresponding to the activity to be visualized.
The activities are visualized as