How to pass user input from RM Server Web App to a Process?

Christos_Karapapas

I am following the Titanic example from the documentation and so far I made the following steps but I have a couple of questions.
1. Created a realm.
2. Created a few domains.
3. Assigned the realm to my web app.
4. Checked the "Allow processes to set app variables via context macros" option in my web app.
5. Created a User Input component in the layout of my web app.
6. Created some variables based on my domains.
7. Assigned the variables to the User Input component and marked them as selected variables.
8. Submitted the component, saved the web app and restart the RM Server.
9. Checked the view Context panel on RM Studio.
10. Created some macros with names identical to the names of my variables and default value 0.
11. Inserted the "Recall from App" operator to my process.
--- So far so good.
Now I suppose I have to select something in the Recall operator.
However, all I see as options is a name "meta_something" that I am using as name in another process' "Publish to App" operator.
What exactly I am supposed to see as options, is it the macros that I just created in the context?
Also after I complete some task with the user input, I need to send the results back to the web app, so I will also use the Publish operator to my process, is it this name that I am supposed to find under the Recall operator?
What am I missing here? Thank you in advance.

Edin_Klapic

@chris_skg ,

Thanks for clarifying!

The interaction is a bit different.

1. In RapidMiner Studio you connect the Operator "Publish to App" and give it a name of your choice (e.g. myData).
2. In RapidMiner Server you edit the Component which should display this Object (can be an ExampleSet, a document or other stuff).
   Then you select/enter the App object (in this example myData) to "Subscribe to App object".
   In order to be selectable, the RapidMiner process creating this App object needs to have been executed in the Server environment (e.g. by putting it in the initialization process of your Web App or manually executing it by adding a Button component to your Web App).
   With the other settings there you can choose different output parameters (e.g.Visualization types).
3. To use the input variable you also need to attach the execution of the Process where the Macro/Variable is used to the User Input Component.

The raw Workflow is as follows:

=> Process creates an App object (e.g. myData)
=> The Web App checks if the object has been created/changed and displays it
=> Every change of a Variable (e.g. via User Input component) is propagated to the defined Processes (i.e. not automatically everywhere where the variable is used)

=> The Process is executed and, if necessary, changes the App object
=> Web App gets updated

Recall from App is only needed when you modify an existing object. Most often (e.g. when using a Macro/Variable for filtering) this is not the way to go since you need to filter from the full dataset!

The benefit of this approach is that you only need to create an object once but can visualize it in various ways in the Web App.

Hope this helps!
Happy Mining,

Edin