Advanced Model Management

This section describes operations that apply to the general aspects of models.

Contents: 

Create a new Model

At the bottom of the Manage Models left side panel, click New Model.

When the New Model dialog opens, fill in the required options.

1. Type a Model name.
2. Include a Description for your model.

3. Select between Create from scratch or Create from an existing model.

   You cannot use the same name for different models.

   1. Create a new model from scratch
      In the New Model window, select first Create from scratch and click Create model.
   2. Creating a new model from an existing model
      In the New Model window, select Create from an existing model.
      1. Select an existing model from the Create from drop-down menu. You can select Kiuwan default models or any model from your own account.
      2. Select the model version to copy in the Model version drop-down menu. You can create new models from the following versions:
         1. The current version and the last published version, if available and if they belong to your account.
         2. The last published version of Kiuwan models.
   3. Select which of the languages present in the selected model version you want to copy in the new model. All configuration and rules for the specified languages will be copied in the new model.
   4. Finally, click Create model.
      

      

Publishing a model

Typically, if our software will be developed by third parties, at some point, "we freeze" our model in order to provide it to them, so they can study and apply it.

The action of publishing a model is made using the Publish button on the top right of the screen.

After you click Publish Model, this dialog opens:

 The window contains the following sections:

Model Actions

Once the model is published, these actions are available: 

• Change publication tag

• Remove this version

• Remove versions

• Edit model

• Remove model

• Set as default model

Change publication tag

Click Change publication tag to edit the version tag of the published model.
 

Remove this version

Click Remove this version to delete the selected model. 

Remove versions

Click Remove versions to remove one or more model versions that are never used in an analysis or an application. 

This option is not available for Default model.

Edit model

Click Edit model to edit the model name and description. Click Save to save the edits and close the window.

Remove model

After clicking Remove model, depending on whether you have used the model or not, two different results displays.

1. If the model is never used in any analysis or applications, the following window will appear: Click OK to remove the model completely. 

   

2. If the model has been used, the following message appears: 
   
   
   Click OK to remove the versions. The used versions are available only through the analysis in read-only mode

Set as default model

Select Set as default model to set the selected model to default (an asterisk will appear next to the model name on the left).

Export to PDF

Expand the Export option, select PDF to generate the report, and to download it.

Compare models and versions

Next to the Summary title, click Compare to compare the selected model with another model and/or version. Read more details about it here: Comparing Models.

Model versions

A model is versioned each time it is published. Thus, we have two types of versions related to the publish state of the model:

• Draft: the latest version of the model, which can be edited. However, precisely because it is being edited, and thus unpublished, this version still cannot be used in the analysis.
• Published: all released versions of the model have this state. A published version cannot be edited. Only the last published version can be used to run an analysis. Other versions are kept to manage historical data.

All versions of a quality model can be accessed through the drop down box in the Models Manager toolbar: