Customizing QMF for Workstation and WebSphere

Customizing content with unlimited design options

The visual design environment in QMF is extremely flexible, allowing users to graphically place charts, selectors, controls, and graphical primitives on the report canvas and embed static content such as text, graphics, hyperlinks, and supporting information (data-driven or static).

With 20 default charts and graphs, over 140 analytical functions, and broad visual palettes of dozens of primitives and other dashboard and report objects, there is much to choose from to accommodate any visual design need.

Designers can nest elements (queries, reports, and dashboards) within each other infinitely, allowing a level of detail that exceeds what would ever be required in an operational environment. The dynamic object properties of QMF also provide full control of the data elements, down to the individual items in charts. Designers can also control the appearance and behavior of these items as a function of the data and user interactions.

Customizing workspaces by user or role

Users can create and tailor their own workspaces according to their needs and preferences, then share these workspaces with other users according to an administrator-defined set of security permissions. Additionally, all views can be customized based on user or role. Users can define workgroups and publish reports and other objects just to a particular workgroup.

Customizing dashboard behavior based on security privileges

Dashboards can be personalized by tailoring visibility and behavior of dashboard elements in accordance with the security privileges of the logged-on user.

For example, graphs and charts can be limited to specific users or groups, or fields can be defined as editable by some users or groups, yet read-only for others. Behavior can be modified using simple object property expressions.