QMF Visionary world elements

The basic elements of a QMF Visionary world include queries, scenes, layouts, navigation, and parameters. The following sections give a brief description of each element.

Queries

To generate data, you compose SQL queries. QMF Visionary provides a variety of query tools to choose from, including query wizards, a text editor for writing SQL statements, and a design tool (similar to Microsoft Access) that enables you to graphically create joins and lay out your columns in a grid.

You use these queries when you make layouts and controls that display database data.

Scenes

A world is composed of multiple scenes. A scene is a visual display of information similar to a Web page, except that the data displayed in the scene is retrieved from a database and changes dynamically as that data changes.

The scenes in your QMF Visionary world can be linked together using a variety of navigation features. You can design your QMF Visionary scenes to include data displays, graphics, jumps, and many other features.

Layouts

To display the data generated by your queries, you use layouts. Layouts are formatting objects that enable you to present data visually and analytically. They include bar charts, pie charts, spiral patterns, tables matrixes, an other formats. You can customize layouts to different degrees, depending on the type of layout.

Navigation

To give users ways to get from one scene to another, to trigger specific actions based on user interaction, and to provide a way for to "drill-down" to more detail, you can add navigation features to your scenes. Navigation features include jumps, wormholes, levels of detail, event actions, and viewpoints.

Parameters

To create context for navigation actions and to provide your user with display options, you create and use parameters. You can create parameters for use throughout your world (global parameters), only within a single scene (scene parameters), or only in queries (query parameters).

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