Assess

• Description
• Functionalities

Description

Assess is the analyst queue for collected Stories and News Items. It supports search, filtering, sorting, merging, bookmarks, report assignment, connector sharing, and review state changes.

Functionalities

Search

Use the Assess sidebar search for Story text search inside the current Assess view. Use the global Omnisearch field to search across Stories, Reports, and Products, or to open Assess with filter tokens such as:

story: source:"CERT.at" tag:ransomware read:false range:last7

Filters

Details:

• First Day: The Story’s creation date, typically matching the oldest News Item’s “published date.”
• Last Day: The Story’s update date, usually reflecting the latest addition or change.

For manually created stories, the “updated” timestamp is essentially the creation time. As a result, filtering by Last day for a manually created story will not return it, even if an older “published date” is set.

Assess filters include search text, source, source group, tag, language, read state, important state, report membership, relevance, cybersecurity classification, changed-by actor, date range, and sort order.

Users can save the current Assess filters from the Saved filters button. A saved filter can be marked as the default for the user profile. Dashboard shortcuts show saved Assess filters so frequently used queues can be opened directly. See Filter Lists and Saved Filters.

Items

News items collected by Collectors become visible in Assess. They can be grouped into Stories automatically by Bots or manually by analysts.

Detail view:

• Relevance of item/aggregate can be changed with “up/down” buttons

Charts:

• Each item displays a chart if data has been aggregated in the last 7 days.
• Line and bar chart display the same data, which is the accumulation of items per day.
• The y-axis of the line chart can be adapted and is the same for all charts in the current items list. Therefore, charts can be compared properly.

Story actions include marking read/unread, marking important, sharing to connectors, ungrouping, version history, deleting, editing, adding to reports, and bookmarking. Bulk actions are available after selecting stories; visible shortcuts include Shift+R for adding to a report and Shift+B for bookmarking.

Story import

Stories can be created manually or imported from JSON. Imports are useful for transferring data between Taranis AI instances or restoring exported analyst work.

Use metadata-free story exports for normal re-imports. Metadata-rich exports include internal tags, attributes, votes, relevance, and similar state; clean those fields before importing them into another instance unless you deliberately want to carry that state over.

Version history

Stories keep a revision history. Use Version History from the Story actions menu to inspect saved revisions and compare the changes between adjacent revisions. Revision diffs are intended for audit and troubleshooting; they do not currently provide rollback.

Bookmarks

Bookmark collections are private per user. A story can be bookmarked from its action menu, or selected stories can be added to an existing or new collection from the Assess toolbar. If a user bookmarks a single story before creating any collections, Taranis AI creates a default collection named Bookmarks.

The Assess page shows up to six bookmark collections in a compact bar. Use All bookmarks to open the full bookmark page, rename or delete collections, reorder them, and remove stories from a collection. Removing a story from a bookmark collection does not delete the story from Assess. See Bookmarks.

Story Edit Advanced View

The Story Edit view can expose AI assisted actions when advanced story options are enabled in user settings. Available actions include generating a summary and title, and running sentiment analysis. When sentiment attributes are present, the advanced view shows the story sentiment status.