Simple Data Items

When you look at a department that can be personalised e.g. Council Tax, which is capable of retrieving data about people, financial and property-based data, there will be a section in OneVu control called ‘Data Items’.

Data Items - Logical Groupings of Data Available in Northgate Council Tax

Data items are effectively pieces of data that can be retrieved from a back office application.

The simplest of data items to work with are items that have a specific value. For example council tax band, next benefit payment amount, licence expiry date are simple examples of data items. If you open the Data Items section for a department there are relatively logical groupings.

If you expand one of these we can see fields of data that we might use to answer a question/shown the citizen. E.g. you might see a data item for Band within a PropertyDetail section.

Expanded Data Item Section Showing Available Data Items

So if we wanted to show this data within OneVu to citizens, it is as simple as clicking the burgundy button with the copy/paste icon on it below the 'Path' column. Then pasting the copied content into a Data Tile:

Illustrating a Data Item present in content

As you can see when you paste a Data Item in, it is surrounded by these bits of text: ${ }. These go around data items so OneVu knows to distinguish them from regular text.

Whilst you can always use the copy/paste mechanism, it is possible to work the format of a token out based upon the section it is in.

E.g. when one expands the Data Item Grouping called AccountDetails, there is another expandable section called Balance. Inside that is a data item called AccountBalance. So because the hierarchy is:

AccountDetail > Balance > AccountBalance the format of the data item would be:

${AccountDetail.Balance.AccountBalance}