What's New in FICO® Xpress Insight 4.54
This section describes the new features and changes introduced with FICO® Xpress Insight 4.54
New in Release 4.54.1
- New Scenario Manager replaces the Scenario Explorer for repository management operations. Improvements include:
- Multi-item actions. Multiple scenarios and folders can be selected and cloned/moved/deleted/shared/owned. Multiple scenarios can be added to the shelf and removed from the shelf in a single action.
- Progress dialog with success/error counts for multi-item actions.
- Folder tree for current folder navigation.
- Sortable items listing with global search.
- Scenario type is displayed in the items listing. For more information see section on custom scenario types below.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Clear shelf option to remove all scenarios from the shelf.
- Workflow integration with FICO Decision Central for asset approval workflows.
- Integration with on premises Decision Central version 7.2 and later is supported.
- Mapping of an Insight app to Decision Central workspace can be configured by an administrator with SYS_SERVER authority.
- A Decision Central workflow process can be initiated for a scenario and the scenario mapped to a Decision Central asset.
- Scenarios placed under workflow are automatically relocated to system managed folders for active, approved, rejected and failed approval state.
- A "My Tasks" link on the masthead will take the user to their open tasks list in Decision Central. A badge next this link shows the current number of open tasks for the user.
- The workflow process name, category and current stage can be observed and queried by an Insight custom view.
- An Insight custom view can have buttons to initiate and terminate a workflow.
- On workflow initiation for a scenario, a single file attachment tagged with a "workflow_asset" tag will be uploaded as a file attachment to the associated Decision Central asset.
- Fix: VDL Action <vdl-action-attachment-upload> wasn't honouring app scope.
- Upgraded to the latest Xpress 8.11.
- Database upgrade to PostgreSQL 11.8.
- Database upgrade is performed automatically during installation on Windows. On Linux the migration steps in the Xpress Insight Installation Guide must be followed.
- Database upgrade will upgrade a database from Insight 4.7.2 or later. Insight 4.7.1 or earlier must be upgraded to Insight 4.53.4 before upgrading to 4.54 or later.
- Tableau 2020.1 and 2020.2 support.
- Tableau 2020.2 is the recommended Tableau version for Insight 4.54.1. As per Tableau support policy, we no longer support Tableau versions 10.5 and earlier.
- The Tableau Dynamic parameters feature, introduced in Tableau 2020.1, is not compatible with Insight reporting.
- Note with Tableau 2020.2 the way data sources are created using Tableau Desktop has significantly changed. Please see the latest Tableau Desktop documentation for more details.
- Support for additional Mosel types:
- Any Mosel module type that has tostring and fromstring operators can be marshalled to the Insight string type and managed as string entities in the scenario data e.g.!@insight.marshal.types text string !@insight.marshal.types datetime string
- The marshalling can be defined per type as above, or per entity e.g.public declarations !@insight.marshal.value string t2: array(range) of text end-declarations
- Where used in a set, the set must be declared as containing constant e.g. 'set of constant datetime'
- For date, time and datetime types the default datetime format is used and is not configurable.
- Companion file version 3.1 adds support for defining custom scenario types which the end user can pick from when creating a new scenario.
- A custom scenario type has a configurable display name and can optionally provide alternative scenario pill icons.
- Custom logic in the Mosel scenario code and custom view code can be conditional on the type of the scenario, allowing for different behaviours per scenario type.
- The user interface actions available for the end user to perform on a scenario can be customized per scenario type. All UI actions can be disabled to create a scenario type that can only be instantiated programmatically.
- The display name and available UI actions of the default scenario type can be customized.
- Python Interface v1.1.1
- Improved error message when Insight cannot start Python because of security restrictions.
- Minor updates to documentation and examples.
- Cloud enhancements:
- An Insight scenario can invoke a Data Pipelines job when deployed on the Decision Management Platform.
- An Insight scenario can invoke the API of the Analytic Data Mart when deployed on the Decision Management Platform.