Object: knowledgebase

Object: knowledgebase

Description

A knowledgebase needs one knowledgebase object to define various global properties:

The list of goals drives the reasoning process.
If this knowledgebase makes SQL queries then the ODBC source must be specified.
The remainder of the properties apply when a knowledgebase is used in a web (HTML) environment. In this case, it needs HTML bits to define how the questions and answers are formatted.

Knowledgebase Properties

These are:

Property Name	Description	Default Value	Required
id	The name of this object. See Object Names for details.	<none>	yes
path	The folder this object is located in. See Folders for details.	/	yes
description	A text description (comment)--not used during reasoning.	<none>	no
goals	The list of goals the reasoning engine will deduce. These are the then-side of your rules or tables.		yes
date_format	The input format for user input of dates and string/date conversions which are represented internally as date(year, month, day).	m/d/y	yes
odbc	Under Windows, the name of the ODBC data source (defined in your Control Panel) to be used for SQL queries.		no
charset	The character set name to be passed in the HTTP headers to the webserver running this knowledgebase.		no
question_separator	The HTML or text to be inserted after each question.	<P>	yes
menu_separator	The HTML or text to be inserted after each item in a menu.	<BR>	yes
value_separator	The HTML or text to be inserted after each goal value, which may be a text object.	<P>	yes
question_top	The HTML for the top of the form that asks the user questions. It must contain all the elements in the default value.	<HTML> <HEAD> </HEAD> <BODY> <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/kwcgibasic.exe%system(cgi_parameters)%">	yes
question_bottom	THE HTML for the bottom of the form that asks the user questions. *Note: It must contain a submit button with a name of "Submit".*	<INPUT TYPE="Submit" Value="Submit"> </INPUT> <INPUT TYPE="Reset" VALUE="Reset"> </INPUT> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML>	yes
output_top	The HTML that is inserted before any non-question output.	<HTML> <HEAD> </HEAD> <BODY>	yes
output_continue	The HTML is is inserted after any non-question output and before the output_bottom when the reasoning process has more work to do.	<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/kwcgibasic.exe%system(cgi_parameters)%"> <INPUT NAME="Submit" TYPE="Submit" VALUE="Continue"> </INPUT> </FORM>
output_bottom	THE HTML appended after an non-question output.	</BODY> </HTML>	yes

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