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Accessing the Xpress Workbench Component

This section describes how to navigate to the Xpress Workbench on FICO® Platform when deployed on-premises or on the FICO® Analytic Cloud (FAC).

Logging in to FICO® Platform

When an organization subscribes to the FAC, it will normally provide a list of permitted users when the contract is signed which is used by FICO Professional Services to create the accounts and configure permissions. Users will be 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 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.

When deployed on-premises, FICO® Platform will be managed by your IT department. Contact your System Administrator for the URL and username password combination you need to access Xpress Workbench.

Note:

Where there is no user interaction, such as mouse or keyboard events, with the Component for 30 minutes, the user will automatically be logged out; a warning message will be displayed five minutes before this happens.

If the Component is logged out and unused, including not running or debugging any Mosel models, for a period of 1.5-2 hours, then the Component will be placed in an Idle state. When the Component is next accessed, it will re-awaken the Component before the user can log into it; this will take up to around a minute. During this time, if you access the Component directly via its URL (for instance stored in a web browser bookmark), you may get a plain text message on the screen telling you the Component is Idle. In this case, wait and then refresh the browser.

Basic Operation of the Component on FICO® Platform

Users with Administrative rights will have the Create Project option available from the dashboard page.

This button creates a new project containing the files for a minimal Xpress application.

Perform the following steps to create a new project from existing files stored on your local computer:
  1. Create a zip archive on your local computer containing all your project files.
  2. Click CREATE PROJECT.
  3. Enter a name for your project.
  4. Click CHOOSE FILE and select the zip archive you created.
  5. Click SAVE.
  6. Click the new project tile to open it.
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