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Composer Module

Introducing the Composer module

Use the Composer module in Varicent Incentives to view, manage, and build a model.

Note

To learn more about building your model within Composer, take the Exploring Data Flow in Incentives and Exploring Incentives Model Building courses.

From this module, you can build and edit the following items:

The Composer module is also used to manage hierarchies, such as the payee structure, and to import data into the model.

The Composer module provides a visualization of the entire model, which is helpful for design, troubleshooting, and refinement. This visual representation is configurable and can show either a high-level representation of the model or a detailed picture of table and calculation streams.

At a high level, the following steps describe how to build a model:

  1. Add components to organize model objects.

  2. Set security for each component.

  3. Add any necessary or relevant documents to a component. These documents might include a description of the contents of the component.

  4. Build tables to contain data.

  5. Import data into the tables from external source systems.

  6. Manipulate the data by using calculations.

  7. Present calculation results in a report or web form.

Important

If any of your calculations require a data source that is contained in another component, you must add an inbound connection from that data source to use it in your calculation. If any of your table data or calculation results must be used as sources for a calculation that is contained in another component, you must add an outbound connection so that your data can be used outside the component.