In Rainbird, an ‘Agent’ will provide people that do not have access to the Rainbird Studio/your knowledge maps the power to run queries that have been created using the Test Query function. An Agent can be accessed by others via a URL, or by embedding an agent into a webpage.

Figure 1: Agents live under the ‘Publish’ tab in Rainbird Studio

 In Rainbird Studio, to create an Agent:

1. Click ‘Publish’
2. Click on ‘Agents’
3. Click ‘+NEW AGENT’ to create a new agent (or select an agent if editing an existing agent)
4. Click ‘Publish’ (or ‘Update’ if updating an existing agent)

The following attributes can be configured when creating/editing an agent:

• Title – Adds a description in the header of the Agent
• Subtitle – Adds a subtitle underneath the title
• Queries – The queries created using the test query feature that people that access that agent will be able to run
• Engine Selection – The engine the queries will run on
• Display back button – Displays a button allowing the user to go back to the previous question in a query to answer it again
• Group questions – Will display questions in question groups (if using)
• Display Evidence Tree – Removes or adds the ‘i’ link, allowing access to the evidence tree
• Display Certainty of results – Removes or adds the certainty percentage displayed next to results
• Display Print Result button – Removes or adds the button allowing a user to print their results
• Context Identifier – Displays a request for an ID that allows Rainbird to retrieve facts from a previous session (the knowledge map will have to be set up to allow this)
• Colour configurator – Allows the user to change the colours of the Agent

Once the agent is set up, a list of all created agents will be displayed on the ‘Agent’ screen.

To find the URL for your agent:

1. From the Agent screen, open up the Agent you wish to send to someone else
2. Scroll down to the iframe link box
3. Copy out the URL embedded in the iframe code (see Figure 2)

To embed an agent into a webpage:

1. From the Agent screen, open up the Agent you wish to embed
2. Scroll down to the iframe link box
3. Copy all of the code
4. Paste the code into the HTML of the webpage you wish to embed the agent into