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Displaying data

You can display data from your database queries using the following categories of QMF Visionary objects:

You might know precisely which QMF Visionary layout or control you want to use, or you might want to try out your data in different formats. QMF Visionary allows you to explore your data--and the business implications of the data--by trying different layouts or controls for the same query.

For example, you might want to show how each type of a product sold in your business contributes to the overall revenue. A pie chart is a good way to show shares, or percentages, of the sum total.

If you then display the units sold and shipped from each category in a bar chart, you can draw conclusions about whether your shipping costs might be increasing in the future. You can create an XY chart to see the shipping cost trend line and make a logical prediction.

This section provides a guide to the type of business analysis scenarios you might want to display and the QMF Visionary layouts and controls available to you to create your visual analyses. The Layout wizard helps you create each layout and control, and online help for the wizard pages provides extra assistance and tips on how to complete each.

The following objects are available to display data from SQL queries:

The controls on the ActiveX Controls palette. The following objects are available on the ActiveX Controls palette to display data from queries:


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