Creating a Project

About this task

A project provides a way of grouping together the various components of a Watson™ Explorer Engine application, such as one or more sources and associated search collections, a customized display, custom knowledge bases, and so on. When making display modifications, it is easiest to do them in the context of a new project so that you do not modify the settings for any of the default displays or projects provided with the Watson Explorer Engine.

The Watson Explorer Engine administration tool makes it easy to create a new project.

Procedure

  1. Click the Add icon () beside the Projects entry in the left-hand Watson Explorer Engine administration tool menu to create a new project.

    A screen like the one shown in Figure 1 displays.

    Figure 1. Creating a New Project
  2. Enter a name for the new project.

    For the purposes of this tutorial, enter the name display-tutorial, and make sure that this project is based on the default core project. Click Add to create the new project. A screen like the one shown in Figure 2 displays.

    Figure 2. The Project Overview Screen

Results

Note: By default, new projects have access to a default group of sources, bundled together with the name example-source-bundle, which are provided by your default Watson Explorer Engine installation. We'll use those sources for the remainder of this tutorial.

To proceed with this tutorial, click Creating a Display.