Best practices for creating or rebuilding a model

Use best practices when you create or rebuild models in IBM® Campaign.

The following table describes best practices to use when you create or build SPSS models in IBM® Campaign.

Flowchart types	Create session flowcharts when the model will be shared among multiple campaign flowcharts. Create campaign flowcharts when the resulting modeling stream will be used only by that one campaign.
Model names	Model names must be alphanumeric. Names must begin with an alphabetic character and cannot contain any spaces. They can include the underscore (_) character.
Changing model types	You can change the model type in a modeling stream from the default Predictive type by opening IBM® SPSS® Modeler Advantage Marketing Edition from the SPSS Model process box. Change the model type and save the modeling stream. You can then build the model either from the SPSS Model process box or directly from IBM® SPSS® Modeler Advantage Marketing Edition.
Data for modeling and scoring	If you open the modeling stream in IBM® SPSS® Modeler Advantage Marketing Edition before you run the SPSS Model or SPSS Score process, only dummy data is available for the SPSS Score process. You must run the processes that provide the input cell and run the SPSS Model process to use real data in the IBM® SPSS® Modeler Advantage Marketing Edition data overviews or previews.
Displaying the latest results	If you open a modeling stream while it is running, the display does not report that the model is building or that it completed. You must close and re-open a modeling stream to see the latest results.
Saving modeling streams	Modeling streams cannot be saved in the root directory, which is at the parent level. They must be saved in folders, which are at the child level.