Expertsystemen

 

The Management Information System (MIS)

The Management Information System (MIS) is a powerful feature of xxllnc Expertsystemen. MIS enables you to store and edit data from your model in a database, making it ready for further analysis.

Saving your data

By using the Management Information System (MIS), you can store data from your model into a database. Currently, you can store all simple data types such as text, long text, number, date, checkbox, combo box, list box and radio group to the database. Complex data types based on datasets are not supported yet.

In order to store data from your model, you will have to go to the ‘LAYOUT’ menu and choose ‘Management Info’, as seen in the picture below. A window will pop-up in which you can select which data to store and under which name that data should be stored. Take into account that you can only select data from the active node.

managing your information
managing your information

Sending the data to a back-end server

The next description is only relevant when you are working on integrating the management information system in high-end MongoDB projects.

Before you are able to use the database, you will have to set the name and location of your database under ‘Extra > Settings’ in the Web server (see picture below). Whatever name you provide will be automatically used to create a collection on the MongoDB. The MongoDB server must be hosted locally on the same machine as the xxllnc Expertsystemen server, and the URL is then always going to be 127.0.0.1 (or localhost). If the MongoDB server has been setup using the default port 27017 there is no need to provide it, otherwise you should add the port to the URL, for e.g: 127.0.0.1:3000 would be correct if you were using port 3000 for the MongoDB server.

adjusting the MIS server settings
adjusting the MIS server settings