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EZ-Query

The MQEZQ window appears with the list of objects.

Select one or more objects and a report and click on Create/Append to create the report.

Then click on View to view the Report Display of the MetaQuest Report component.

DD-Query

The MetaQuest DD-Query (MQDDQ - Dual Display) component is designed for users who want to examine a side by side list of two object types that are closely related, typically in a many to many relationship. The capabilities include: Side by side list of objects from two different, but related, object types. Select one or more objects from one side and display all related objects on the other side. Select one or more objects from either side and create a report using the MQR. The MQDDQ is launched from: The DD-Query drop down menu on the MQQ main menu. A MQDDQ, which is defined by the MetaQuest Administration tool, is selected from the Main Menu drop down menu.

The MQDDQ window appears with both object lists empty.

 

Click on Append to List to display a list of MetaQuest Logical Entities and the select one or more of them and click on the right arrow to see the MetaQuest Logical Attributes that are related.

Selections an MetaQuest Logical Attribute and click on the left arrow to see the related Entities.

 

Select an object from either list and create a report by clicking on the corresponding buttons in the Report Selection list below just as we did in the EZ-Query window.  Also note that the Report Display window is the same window used by all MQQ components and it can be used to accumulate reports throughout the user session.

EX-Query

 

The MetaQuest EX-Query (MQEXQ - EXtended) component is designed for the advanced user who wants to start with a pre-defined set of object types and expand from there to explore related objects and object types. The capabilities include: Side by side list of objects types on the left and objects and/or object types on the right. Double click on an object type on the left side or click on the plus sign to see all related object types displayed indented and below the selected object type. Select an object type on the left to see the corresponding list of objects on the right. Double click on an object on the right side to see all related objects displayed indented and below the double clicked object. Print a report, using the MQR, of the contents of the object type list on the left side. Print a report, using the MQR, of the contents of the object list on the right side. Select one object from the right side and create a report using the MQR. Use the MQA to designate one or more titles and one or more corresponding object types for each to be used as part of the EX-Query list. Scroll bars will appear when text goes beyond the vertical and horizontal display dimensions. The vertical bar that splits the side by side display view is positional. The MQEXQ is launched from: The EX-Query drop-down menu on the MQQ main menu. A MQEXQ, which is defined by the MetaQuest Administration tool, is selected from the Main Menu drop down menu.

The MQEXQ window will appear with the left pane populated with Object Types and the right pane empty.

 

Double click on one of the Object Types or click on the plus sign next to it to see all related Object Types indented in a list below.

 

Notice that a the selected Object Type on the left also appears in the right pane.  Double click on the Object Type in the right pane to get Object instances (with optional wildcard) in a list indented and below.

 

Double click or click on the plus sign on one of the MetaQuest Logical Entities in the list and it expands to show all related Object Types.  Then again you can expand one of the resulting Object Types to get a list of related Objects to the parent Object and Object Type.

 

You soon realize that this list can go on and on and on as far as the user wants to take it.  Also notice that the same Report Selection window is at the bottom of the screen and it allows you to create a report - just like EZ-Query and DD-Query - to the same Report Display window.  There are two additional reports for EX-Query and they are "Selected Tree View List" and "Full Tree View List" and these reports will display the contents of the left or right pane.  For example, by selecting the Attribute named Customer Product List and selecting the "Selected Tree View List" report, and then clicking on Create/Append, the following report is created.

If the "Full Tree View List" report had been selected, then the entire contents of the right pane would have been printed.

PW-Query

 

The MetaQuest PW-Query (MQPWQ - PoWer) component is designed for the expert user who wants to search all or large portions of the repository based on multiple predicates on one or more object types. The capabilities include: Allow the user to choose one or more object types to be searched. Allow the user to choose one or more attributes to be searched. The attribute list is generated from the combination of all attributes for all object types in the object types list. Allow the user to enter one or more predicates, each of which can be logically ANDed or ORed with other predicates. Each predicate is a case sensitive or case insensitive search of the corresponding attributes. Allow the query to be submitted in one mode: Background – Execute immediately, but allow the user to continue working and prompt the user when finished. Use the MQA to designate one or more object type group titles and the one or more corresponding object types for each group to be used as part of the PW-Query list. Use the MQA to designate one or more attribute categories such as "Description" or "Name" and define a corresponding attribute list for each. The MQPWQ is launched from: The PW-Query drop down menu on the MQQ (MetaQuest Query tool) main menu by selecting: An Administrator Defined PW-Query that has been defined by the administrator and which will be represented by a name. The value "<User Defined PW-Query>", which allows the user to build a new PW-Query from scratch or select a previously User Defined PW-Query from a folder. A MQPWQ, which is defined by the MetaQuest Administration tool, is selected from the Main Menu drop down menu.

 

The MQPWQ window appears and it's a Wizard driven window and the first panel that appears is the Search List panel and it lists the Object Types and Attributes that will be searched.  In this case the MetaQuest Logical Entity and MetaQuest Logical Attribute Object Types will be searched and in particular the MetaQuest Description attribute will be searched for the MetaQuest Logical Entity and all attributes will be searched for MetaQuest Logical Attribute.  The Object Wildcard specifies which Objects should be searched - all in this case.  Note that we could have specified "*" for the Object Type and "*" for the Attribute, which would result in searching all Object Types and Attributes.  The Advanced Search (Adv Srch) capability allows the user to search based on a link such as searching all MetaQuest Logical Attributes that are related to the MetaQuest Logical Entity named "Address" - but we won't use that feature in this case.

 

Clicking on Next brings up the subsequent Wizard panel named Predicate List and this is where the search criteria is specified.  We can specify several predicates with combined by AND and OR, using different operators and grouped by parentheses.  In this case we're doing a simple search for any string with the value "addr" in upper or lower case.

 

Clicking on Next brings up the subsequent Wizard panel named Run Status and it allows the user to begin the search, which will run on the server as a separate process from the client.  As the query runs, the status will be updated periodically and the user is free to do other things while it runs.

Clicking on Run will begin execution of the Query and the Run Status will be updated.

After the query is complete, the final Wizard panel named Results List is displayed with the results.

 

At this point, the user can click on the Back button to change things and run again, or they can append the results to the same Report Display window by clicking on Create/Append.