This section describes operations that apply to the general aspects of models.
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At the bottom of the Manage Models left side panel, click New Model.
When the New Model dialog opens, fill in the required options.
Select between Create from scratch or Create from an existing model.
You cannot use the same name for different models. |
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:
Name | Description |
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Publication tag | A literal, or "tag", to facilitate the configuration management tasks and versioning of project artifacts. |
New technologies | The automatically generated weights for the new languages added (if exists), with the possibility to change the value. |
Mandatory rules | The list of mandatory rules that will be automatically added to the model (if necessary) |
Related rules | The list of related rules that you should check before publishing (incompatibilities, generalizations, and deprecations). |
Mandatory metrics | The list of mandatory metrics that will be automatically added to the model (if necessary). |
Once the model is published, these actions are available:
Click Change publication tag to edit the version tag of the published model.
Click Remove this version to delete the selected model.
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.
Click Edit model to edit the model name and description. Click Save to save the edits and close the window.
After clicking Remove model, depending on whether you have used the model or not, two different results displays.
If the model is never used in any analysis or applications, the following window will appear: Click OK to remove the model completely.
Select Set as default model to set the selected model to default (an asterisk will appear next to the model name on the left).
Expand the Export option, select PDF to generate the report, and to download it.
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.
A model is versioned each time it is published. Thus, we have two types of versions related to the publish state of the model:
All versions of a quality model can be accessed through the drop down box in the Models Manager toolbar: