Chai

(Concordance Heuristic Admin Interface)

Chai is a Concordance administration program, replacing functions that you would otherwise resort to CPL for, and adding some new ones. Concordance, by LexisNexis, is an application for electronic discovery and document management.

The idea with Chai, is to create an administration interface that is easy enough that someone without a background in CPL, can still perform some pretty advanced functions and feel comfortable with what the function will do, without having to read or edit or find the CPL. I think Concordance 9 is a huge step forward in terms of the end user (reviewer) experience and I think what needs to be updated next is the Administrator's experience. This is where Chai fits in.

I think the ultimate goal would be to rewrite all the CPLs in this interface, making a much smaller list of different selectable scripts but keeping the number of utilities and tools the same. And adding utilities that are not currently available in CPL. All of these functions would be done with dialogs that would allow you to customize the fields and perhaps functionality. This should reduce the confusion created by having multiple, and sometimes nondescript, CPLs, that all really accomplish the same task.

The library is about 60% completed and Chai is still in it's very early beta stage.

I would appreciate any comments or feedback. You can email me or post to the forums.

Please note: This program does not come with a warranty. You use it at your own risk.
Also, if you find this program useful, please consider making a donation. :-)

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Usage:

Chai comes with an installer that will configure itself based on user selectable options.
Please see the video under ScreenCasts for usage instructions.

Special Note: Chai is currently being beta tested by a few select users, so it's not yet available. The biggest remaining issue is the way Concordance's licensing works. I would like to eventually release this as open source software, however this issue needs to be addressed before I'm able to do so.

So please check back frequently.

_{Please post any bugs or comments in the forum, linked on the front page.}

Download:

Link	Version	Description
Chai_v03e.Zip	Testing Version .03e (beta)	Version currently being tested by a test group of about 18 people. Thanks testers!
Chai_v04a.Zip	CVS Nightly Build Version .04a UNSTABLE	This version represents the program as it's being created. When I check my code into CVS, it's automatically built and made available here. This is only here to serve as an example of where the program is going. This program should never be used on live databases and may contain bugs, errors and may actually break previously working features as I refine the methods and add new functionality.

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