FICO® Xpress Workbench 3.9 – April 2023

Community Manager

3 years ago

Xpress Workbench is the technology component which provides an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that allows Operations Research professionals, Data Scientists, and Solution Developers to rapidly and collaboratively develop analytic and optimization models, services, and Xpress Insight apps written in Python or Xpress Mosel. It also supports Xpress Mosel—the premier algebraic modelling and optimization language.

This release delivers further enhancements to View Designer in adding VDL Datagrid and VDL Pivottable. This release further focusses on features available only on FICO(R) Platform allowing to run Python models in a trusted manner and deploy Python-based apps to Xpress Insight 5 on FICO Platform.

View Designer enhancements

New VDL components for datagrid and a pivottable are available in View Designer.
- VDL Datagrid provides an alternative to VDL Table, it is able to render larger tables, provides calculated columns, and scrollability. Data can be fed in as an argument besides direct binding to entities.
- VDL Pivottable is a new VDL component which allows Insight users to define a pivot table with customizable ordering of rows and columns depending on a selection in VDL fields.
- New attribute "preserve-selection-order" for vdl-field which enables the preservation of the order in which options are selected in a multi-select dropdown

FICO Platform features

Users of Workbench on FICO(R) Platform can now develop and run Python-Insight based models. These can be deployed to Xpress Insight 5 on the platform. Additionally, debugging of such Python/Insight 5 scenarios is very convenient in Workbench.
Development of Mosel-based Insight apps on platform is supported for deployment to Xpress Insight 4.
These changes do not impact existing features for on-premises versions of the product.