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# Working with Xpress Workbench

Xpress Workbench is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Mosel models and Xpress Insight applications.

Workbench panes
  Model editor (central window), project directory navigation and command history (left), model output and execution log information (bottom), debugging, deployment and collaboration information (right).

  | Workspace preferences (settings).
  | Toggle full-screen view for logging pane.

  Use menu Window»Presets»Full IDE to restore original window layout.
Editor
  Code folding and breakpoint markers appear in the grey area immediately left to the text.

  | Open a new file/tab
  | Subdivide and re-arrange panes in the editor window
  | Code folding for blocks of Mosel statements
  | Unfold folded code
  | Line position markers during debugging

Model execution
  The name of the model is selected in the box next to these buttons, it may be different from the model(s) opened in the editor.

  | Compile a model (Ctrl-B).
  | Execute (compile/load/run) a model (Ctrl-F5).
  | Execute (compile/load/run) a model in debug mode (F5).
  | Open Compiler Options or Run Dialog windows.

  Alternatively, use menu Run to compile or run a model.
Debugger
  Breakpoints are set by clicking onto the gray area (left to the line number if it is displayed) preceding each row in the editor window.

  | Delete breakpoint/deactivated breakpoint.

  Navigating in the debugger (select Debugger tab on right border):

  | Activate/deactivate all breakpoints.
  | Start/stop the debugger.
  | Resume/suspend model execution (F8).
  | Step over an expression (F10).
  | Step into an expression (F11).
  | Step out of an expression (Shift-F11).
  | Don't pause on exceptions.

Deployment to Xpress Insight

  | Publish selected model to Insight (Ctrl-Alt-P).
  | Build an Insight app archive (Ctrl-Shift-A).
  | Debug a scenario.
  | Edit Tableau workbooks (Ctrl-Alt-T).
  | Refresh Insight scenario tree.
  | Xpress Insight settings.

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