AlchemyPoint 'conditions' are user-definable mashups that can be re-combined with 'actions' (also mashups) to create an endless variety of useful web manipulations. AlchemyPoint comes pre-loaded with hundreds of actions ("delete this", "bold text", "translate to german", etc.) and conditions ("in the morning", "if language is X", etc.), and provides mechanisms for users to build and share their own mashup commands, actions, and conditions.
In this example, we're combining a single 'action' ("bold text") with two 'conditions' ("if it mentions X" and "on this website"), and applying the result to the news blog: TechCrunch
This combination of three mashups ("bold text" + "if it mentions Google" + "on this website") instructs AlchemyPoint to bold any portion of TechCrunch's news articles that mention the keyword 'Google'. Keyword-based highlighting allows for an individual to quickly identify topics, person-names or company-names of interest in a website, a useful capability. This is one of billions of potential examples of "compound mashups" (made up of mashup 'actions' and 'conditions' in combination).
1. Open your Web Browser to www.techcrunch.com.
2. Click the Orchestr8 icon in your web browser navigation toolbar, and select "Customize this Page!".
The AlchemyPoint toolbar will now appear, and the web browser will refresh in "Page Edit Mode".
3. Click the "Actions" pulldown menu, and select "Page Formatting"->"Text Manipulation"->"Highlight".
The Web Browser will now enter "Content Selection Mode". Web page elements will become highlighted as you drag your computer mouse across the Browser window.
4. Highlight the first paragraph of the first TechCrunch article with your mouse, and click to select it.
A pop-up options display will appear at the bottom of your web browser window, offering the ability to switch between single and multi-select mode:
4. Click the "Multi Select" button.
Other paragraphs in the TechCrunch webpage will then automatically become highlighted. Click the "Select More Elements" button until all paragraphs become selected:
After clicking "Select More Elements" a few times, all paragraphs on the webpage will become selection-highlighted:
5. Click the "Conditions" pulldown menu, and select "Selected Content"->"Text Search"->"If It Mentions ..".
You will be prompted to enter the search keyword to look for in the selected webpage elements.
6. Enter 'Google' for the search keyword.
7. Click the "Conditions" pulldown menu, and select "Location"->"On This Website".
The "completed" mashup command will now appear as below:
5. Click the "Do It!" button, or press the [Enter] key.
The webpage will now refresh. All paragraphs on this page will automatically be bolded if they mention the keyword 'Google':
Subsequent visits to TechCrunch.com will see bolding applied to any article text that mentions the word 'Google'. Since we also applied the "on this website" condition, the same bolding operation occurs on any webpage within the TechCrunch.com domain (not just the page where we originally applied the command):
And that's it! A useful 'compound' mashup that can be created in less than 30 seconds. The "if it mentions X" condition can be utilized in combination with any other AlchemyPoint actions or conditions to create a vast variety of content analysis / webpage markup mashups.
