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Accessing the Xpress Insight Component

The following section describes how to navigate to the Xpress Insight component in FICO® Platform when deployed on-premises or FICO® Platform on the FICO® Analytic Cloud (FAC).The steps assume that you have access to the FAC and that FICO Professional Services or your solution administrator has deployed a FICO Platform solution with Xpress Insight.

Logging in to FICO® Platform

When an organization subscribes to the FAC, it normally provides a list of permitted users, which is used by FICO Professional Services to create the accounts and configure permissions. Users are provided with the URL to directly access the application. FICO Professional Services will fully prepare the environment ready for use; Xpress Insight is implemented as a FICO Platform component instance of a solution in FICO® Platform on the FAC. After the Xpress Insight component is successfully provisioned, authorized users can access Xpress Insight through the FAC.

Accessing Xpress Insight

After you log in, the SOLUTIONS tab on the main page displays all the solutions that you have access to. Open the solution that contains your Xpress Insight component and then click Components. Click the Insight component and then click Configure to open the Component Configuration window.

The Lifecycle Stages tab of the window shows details about the component instance deployed to each lifecycle stage (Design, Staging, and Production). The App Promotion: Design to Staging window controls which apps in the component are eligible to be promoted from Design to Staging. Depending on your user roles, you might also see the App Promotion: Staging to Production tab, which shows which apps are eligible to be deployed to Production. (For more information about lifecycle stages and app promotion, see Publishing Apps on FICO Platform.)

On the Lifecycle Stages tab, click the lifecycle stage where you want to open Xpress Insight. (You can only open a lifecycle stage that you have permission to access.) The Xpress Insight Home page opens.

Home Page

The Home page displays all the Xpress Insight apps you have permission to access. Administrators also have the following:
  • An UPLOAD APP button. This can be used to upload an app using the INSIGHT file format that has been exported from a local Xpress Insight deployment, or a ZIP file that contains the artifacts that comprise an app. Certain potentially insecure file extensions cannot be uploaded as attachments, even when contained in a zip archive. For more information, see Developing for Insight on FICO Platform.
  • The option to delete an existing app, available from the menu on the app tile.
  • An option on the top banner of the Web Client user interface to navigate to the Xpress Insight admin interface. The Admin interface allows the authority groups and app membership of users to be modified.

The App Pages

The Xpress Insight main pages are described in the Insight 5 Web Client User Guide. On the FAC, the App page may display an additional icon to the ones listed in the page in this manual. All the icons that may be displayed by the FICO® Platform version of Xpress Insight are displayed in this table.

Icon Description
Run Active Scenarios

Runs the active scenarios.

The scenarios can have different statuses.
Icon Icon Type Description
cloud icon Connecting. The first time a scenario is run there may be a delay when connecting to the worker. A message will also be displayed periodically to confirm the worker is provisioning.
clock icon Queued for running.
spinner icon Running.
chart icon Run with no errors and generated results.
error icon Run but encountered an error.
Note: Some advanced apps may present their scenarios with a different, custom range of colors and icons.
Action Menu Opens the Action Menu drop-down list from which you can load and run data, attach files, and update apps.
Fullscreen Switches the page to full screen mode, which fills the browser. When in full screen mode you can use the Exit fullscreen icon to return to the normal page layout.
Collapse Collapses the shelf to a single row if more than one row is showing because the number of selected scenarios exceeds the number that will fit for the width of the page.
Expand Expands the collapsed shelf so that multiple rows of scenarios show, if necessary.
Covered Topics
  • Sharing a direct link to the application
    You can send a link to direct registered users to your app. When a user who has logged in to FICO® Platform clicks this link, the app is displayed in the browser, removing the need to navigate the intermediate screens.
Parent Topic Insight 5 FICO Platform Component Guide

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