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New Functionality and Changes Introduced with FICO Xpress Insight Help 4.3

This section describes the new features and changes introduced with FICO® Xpress Insight DMP Component Help 4.3

Summary

  • Folder support in the Web client
  • File attachment tags
  • VDL and JavaScript APIs to file attachment system
  • Support for running R scripts during scenario executions

Web Client

  • Folder management: create, delete, rename, move, ownership and sharing
  • Support for names containing URL reserved and unsafe characters, for example: #, ?, %, /, &
  • Scenario export

JFile attachments

  • Attachments can be tagged with one or more tags defined in the project, to identify them as being for a particular purpose to the Mosel model.
  • Attachments can be hidden by the Mosel model. They will not appear in the UI until the Show Hidden button is clicked.
  • Several attachments can be downloaded at one time, delivered as a zip file.
  • New JS API functions for managing attachments. For details see the JavaScript API section below.
  • New VDL components for managing attachments. For details see the VDL section below.

R integration

  • R scripts can be invoked during scenario execution. R scripts execute in a secure environment. See Invoking R Scripts for more details.

JavaScript API 2.1

  • New methods to get information about scenario and project attachments.
    • Get all attachments with Scenario#getProjectAttachments and Scenario#getScenarioAttachments.
    • Get a single attachment by filename with Scenario#getProjectAttachment and Scenario#getScenarioAttachment.
    • Get all attachments with a given tag with Scenario#getTaggedProjectAttachments and Scenario#getTaggedScenarioAttachments.
    • Search the scenario and project for an attachment by filename with Scenario#findAttachment and by tag with Scenario#findTaggedAttachments.
    • Download a zip file containing multiple attachments with Scenario#downloadProjectAttachments and Scenario#downloadScenarioAttachments.
  • New methods to open the attachments dialog.
    • Open the attachments dialog with View#openProjectAttachmentsDialog and View#openScenarioAttachmentsDialog.
    • Open the dialog in upload mode with View#uploadProjectAttachment and View#uploadScenarioAttachment.
    • Register for notifications about changes to attachments with ScenarioObserver#withAttachments.
    • Show image attachments inline inline in custom views with ScenarioObserver#bindImageAttachments.
    • AutoText supports a new attribute, data-text , for showing information about attachments and attachment tags, along with entity values and parameters.

VDL 2.1

  • New text attribute inserts entity values, parameters, and information about attachments and tags anywhere in a VDL view.
  • Image tags can use the new attachment-filename attribute to show image attachments inline in a VDL view.
  • New VDL actions to upload and download attachments and to open the attachments dialog, using the action attribute on any clickable element.