Audience
To get the most from this guide, you will need to be familiar with the relevant programming and markup languages, and have some knowledge of the interaction model that underlies the Xpress Insight web client itself.
- The core model at the heart of any Xpress Insight app is authored in the Xpress-Mosel modeling language and solved using the Xpress-Optimizer solver. You will need some experience developing models using Mosel and the solver algorithms.
- You can customize interactions between Xpress Insight and the Mosel model, and how it is presented to business users. Configuration options are specified in an XML file, and you will need a basic understanding of how to create and edit XML documents.
- An Xpress Insight app is a container for multiple views of the model, its state and data. There are three main options for developing additional, custom views:
- You can use VDL (View Definition Language) to create views as embedded web pages, which requires a working knowledge of XML and, optionally, HTML.
- You can also use JavaScript to create views as embedded web pages, which will require a working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
- Views can be created in Tableau for FICO, published to the Tableau server and made available to Xpress Insight. For best results, you should already be famliar with doing so in Tableau itself.
- To understand how the underlying model will appear to business users, and to understand the impact of your customization activities, you will need to be familiar with the Xpress Insight web client user interface.