Developing a QMF Visionary world
QMF
Visionary Studio allows you to share a QMF Visionary world's
files across a development team for the concurrent development of
a QMF Visionary world. QMF Visionary Studio integrates with any
commercially available source-control system. For more information
on concurrent development, see the DB2 QMF Visionary Developer's Guide.
Developing a QMF Visionary world typically involves the following
basic steps:
- Plan your world by identifying the business questions it should
answer and then create a storyboard that visually plots the answers.
- Create a data model that answers your business questions, and
then gather the necessary data into the model.
- Define a data source for the database containing the data for
the world.
- Start QMF Visionary Studio and connect to the data source.
- Create a query using one of the following tools:
- Simple Query wizard, for SQL queries using a single table
- Advanced Query wizard, for complex SQL queries using one or
more tables
- Query Diagram view, for complex SQL queries, displayed in a
grid control
- Text view, for direct SQL entry
- Create scenes using the Scene Editor, the Palette Manager, the
Layout wizard, and the Object Inspector.
- Test your world in runtime mode of the Scene Editor.
- Publish your world with the Publish wizard, specifying a deployment configuration.
- Deploy your world:
- Client/server deployment. Install the
published world file (.vis), the appropriate database connectivity,
and QMF Visionary WorldView on client computers.
- Internet deployment. Install QMF Visionary
World Server, the published world component files, and the appropriate
database connection driver on your Web server. Configure QMF Visionary
World Server with QMF Visionary Administrator. Client computers automatically
download the appropriate QMF Visionary Viewer for the Web browser
accessing the QMF Visionary world URL.