ARDI Documentation - selectors

Selector Autocomplete

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Selector Autocomplete If you're displaying a UI, you might want to help guide your users through entering a selector. If you add the ac property to your URL, you'll be given an additional suggestions property in your response. If we had the incomplete selector

Combining Rules

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:24:52 +0000

Combining Rules Selector rules can be combined by placing them one after the other. By default, each rule will be applied to the items found before it - narrowing the number of selected assets. For example... Finish Oven.Internal Temperature ...would find an asset called 'Finish Oven', but only if it had a property called 'Internal Temperature'.

Selector.js Terminal Options

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Selector.js Terminal Options When a user creates a selector through auto-completion in Selector.js, the user will eventually reach a 'terminal' choice - one that finishes the selector. By default, this will simply give them a single option that will call the

Results with Structure

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Results with Structure Sometimes, you'd like to know the structure of the assets in the selector, not just their identity. The map endpoint works just like the normal selector endpoint, but includes quite a bit of additional detail on how the assets in your selector are related.

Selector Options

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Selector Options The options endpoint is used to add some further help when users are entering a selector in a text entry control. Just like the selector endpoint, it takes a query parameter that contains the selector you've written so far. However, you usually call 'options' when your selector is

Relationship Selectors

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:08:46 +0000

Relationship Selectors In selectors, a rule with a '{' or '}' symbol indicates a relationship rule. A relationship rule requires that you've already selected something (with a name or type rule, for example). It adds more assets to the results by searching down relationships.

Basic Usage

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Basic Usage You access the Selector API by sending a web request to /selectors/api/selector. It needs one parameter, named query which should contain the selector you want to run. For example, if you wanted to select all of the pumps in the Water System, you'd make the following

Selector.js

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:50:17 +0000

Selector.js Selector.js is a Javascript library that helps you add ARDI selector auto-complete to any HTML edit field. Including In Your Page Adding these lines to the HEAD section of your page will import the library.

ARDI Selectors

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:21:14 +0000

ARDI Selectors Selectors are a new method of searching for and choosing ARDI assets. They're smaller, simpler and faster to write than AQL statements, although slightly less flexible. Selectors are often used when choosing/specifying assets. They will be appearing in more ARDI plugins as time goes on, and can also be used in queries AQL using the