1️⃣ Hands-on Practice - App and Attributes

🎯 Practical Guide - Creating a Document Summary App

We're going to learn together how to create a simple application that allows you to write a summary of a document, progressively enriching it with additional parameters.

Define What We Need

We will proceed in this order:

Define what we need

Create our App

Create our attributes

Create our blocks

Create our wizard

Test our App

For this hands-on experience, we're going to start simply.

Define the Requirements

The objective of this first App is to allow a person to upload a document and have a summary written for it.

We need:

An AI to generate the summary

The document to provide to the AI

To request the document from the App User

In Thinkeo this translates to:
An AI block that will rely on two nested blocks, namely:

A paragraph block with the prompt (instructions) for the AI

A file block with the document uploaded by the User

To feed this file block we will need a file attribute.

This file attribute will need to be fed by the User during an "Upload" step of the Wizard.

We therefore need an AI block, a paragraph block, a file block, a file attribute and an upload step. These are the essential elements for our App.

We're now going to see how to create them and link them together.

🚀 Creating an App

We're going to start by creating an application, which we'll call an App in the rest of this guide. To do this, go to the Studio and click "Create App" in the top right.

💡 Navigation Tip: Remember that we're using the Studio interface for all App creation and editing tasks.

Give it a name, preferably short, then validate the App creation. For this guide, we'll name this App "Document Summary".

You'll arrive on the Studio, with on the left a panel with several tabs to build our App and on the right we'll see the content of our blocks later.

Initial Setup
Start by adding an icon and a short description to your App to easily identify it later.

What to Ignore for Now
Don't worry about the "Restrict access to" section or the "Publish" button - we'll come back to these later.

🏷️ Creating an Attribute

During the requirements definition we identified that a file attribute will be necessary for our App. So we're going to create it before working on the blocks.

TIP

Workflow Navigation: Click "Back to apps" in the top left of the screen and go to the Attribute Editor and click "Create an attribute".

📝 Attribute Naming Best Practices

Give a name to your attribute - I recommend adding the initials of your App at the beginning.

For attributes as well as all other platform resources (attributes and blocks), we strongly recommend using a naming convention to easily find your way around.

For this App, we're therefore going to create an attribute "DS. Document" where:

DS is the abbreviation for "Document Summary"

Document is the title to identify the role of our attribute at a glance

⚙️ Attribute Configuration

Select Type

Select the "File" type and click "Save".

Validation

Your file attribute is now created and ready to be used in your App structure.

🎯 Key Takeaways

At this stage, you have successfully:

✅ Created your first App with proper naming conventions
✅ Set up the foundational file attribute needed for document processing
✅ Established the basic structure for a document summary application

Next Steps: Now that we have our App and essential attribute configured, we're ready to move on to creating the blocks that will power our document summary functionality.

1️⃣ Hands-on Practice - App and Attributes

🎯 Practical Guide - Creating a Document Summary App#

🚀 Creating an App#

🏷️ Creating an Attribute#

📝 Attribute Naming Best Practices#

⚙️ Attribute Configuration#

🎯 Key Takeaways#

🎯 Practical Guide - Creating a Document Summary App

🚀 Creating an App

🏷️ Creating an Attribute

📝 Attribute Naming Best Practices

⚙️ Attribute Configuration

🎯 Key Takeaways