Understanding Services
What is a Service?
A Service is an AIForged function. It can be any of the available Service Types, such as an OCR engine that performs optical character recognition on a document, or an email scraper that downloads emails from a mailbox and separates attachments as useable objects, or even a simple copy function that can copy objects from one service’s Outbox to another service’s Inbox.
A service typically has an Inbox and Outbox. The Inbox stores objects that need to be processed by the service. The Outbox contains the processing results.
Depending on the service type, a service can also have a Definition Box, Training Box, and Label Box.
Multiple Services can be nested within a Service. These nested services are called Child Services. Child Services will automatically be added to a service depending on the Service Type’s dependencies, or Rule Type dependencies, but can also be manually added to extend a service’s functionality.
The example below shows a Service Card within a Service’s Detail View, which in this case represents a Parent Service with three Child Services.
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The following Action Buttons can be found in a Service Card, the number indicates the document count for each of the boxes:
| Action Button | Icon | Descritpion |
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| Definition | .png) | Opens the Definitions box of the service. (Only valid for Classification and Extraction Service Types) |
| Training |  (2).png) | Opens the Training box of the service. (Only valid for Classification and Extraction Service Types) |
| Labelled | .png) | Opens the Label box of the service. (Only valid for Classification and Extraction Service Types) |
| Inbox |  (2) (1).png) | Opens the Inbox of the service. |
| Outbox |  (3) (1).png) | Opens the Outbox of the service. |
| Configuration Wizard |  (2) (1).png) | Opens the Configuration Wizard of the service. |
| Service Definitions |  (2) (4).png) | Opens the Configuration page of the service. |
| Service Logs |  (5).png) | Opens the Service Logs of the service. |
| Delete Service |  (4).png) | Deletes the service. |
How to create a Service?
- Open an existing Project, or create a new Project.
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At the bottom of the Project Detail View, select Add Service.
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The Add New Service dialogue will open.
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- Select the Service Type of the Service you want to add and click on Select.
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Click Yes on the confirmation message box.
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Service Actions
Various Service Actions are available from the Command Bar of the Service Detail View.
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Document Categories.
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Document Keys
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All Definitions of the service.
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Manage User access for the service.
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Share a service on the marketplace.
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Open Report for the service.
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