Working with visual projects

Visual reports

Visual reports are page-based, printable reports that include both formatted text and graphics to display persistent data to a wide variety of users. Visual reports can also contain data driven graphics (such as maps and charts) inserted in different sections (such as the headers or footers) of the report. Each of the data driven graphics can present data from multiple queries that are run across the enterprise.

Ad hoc reports

Ad hoc reports provide a flexible and user-friendly approach to creating reports, while making the overall design process more efficient. They include a scene with a canvas on which you create a report. A canvas can contain data objects such as charts, queries, and dynamarts.

Visual dashboards

Visual dashboards present interactive or persistent data obtained from querying multiple heterogeneous data sources across the enterprise. Visual dashboards present data in a scene format using a wide variety of graphics including charts, graphs, maps and user interface widgets. Data driven graphical objects can be easily linked so that user selections will trigger unique data displays. Content developers can create a visual dashboard that can be viewed by multiple users with either QMF for Workstation or QMF for WebSphere®.

Visual applications

You cannot create visual applications in QMF for Workstation starting from Fix Pack 4. In current release, you can run visual applications that were created in previous versions of QMF. The existing visual applications are automatically converted to visual dashboards, if you open them for editing. After conversion the initial visual application remains unchanged. You can edit the created visual dashboard, and then save it to a repository or file. In this case, the created visual dashboard cannot be run in previous versions of QMF.