An application built in the Apprentice Product Modeler and deployed in the Product Apprentice can have a variety of end user interfaces.  In this example the deployed application will use Microsoft Visio as a drag and drop interface for building a solution.

The approach used in this example is what we call "augmentation" as opposed to "automation".  The end user will essentially build the solution manually, but be assisted by the intelligence built into the application through rules that calculate critical information automatically, syntax checking of the correctness of the Visio drawing, smart dialog boxes, and access to databases.

An initial step in creating the application in the Product Modeler development environment is to create the necessary concepts, assign attributes to each, and associate each concept with a Visio shape that will be used to represent that concept in the deployed application.