visual_designer.hlp
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- "Visual query designer" {bold} "
- PgAccess is using an advanced tool for visual designing of queries.
- For those of you that have used Microsoft Access, it will be very familiar.
- When a new query is build, an empty canvas will be presented to you.
- In the bottom of the screen there is the " {} "result" {italic} " zone.
- Add new tables on the canvas by selecting them from the drop-down or by entering
- their names in the "Add table" entry and then pressing Enter.
- After adding the source tables on the canvas you can make links between fields from
- different tables by dragging one field and dropping it on the label of the
- corresponding field in the linked table. Links can be deleted by selecting them
- (the link line will change it's colour) and then press "Delete" key.
- In order to delete a table from the canvas, select it by mouse clicking on the
- name of the table and then press the "Delete" key. The tables can be moved
- on the canvas by dragging them from their name labels. The entire canvas can
- be panned by dragging it from an empty area.
- In order to select fields that will be included in the result, drag the desired
- field from the table and drop it in the result zone in the desired column.
- If there is already another field in that column, it will be shifted to the
- right together with all the remaining fields to the right and the new field will
- be inserted in the desired column.
- You can also specify a condition for records to be included in the result. Go
- to the result zone and in the "Criteria" row enter the condition for the
- selected field." {} "
- Example:" {italic} "
- > 150
- we will presume that we entered the above criteria for a numeric field. Or:
- = 'CPU'
- for a character field.
- If you don't want a field to be included in the result and you dropped it into
- the result area just for adding a selection criteria on it, mouse click on
- the Yes or No label in the "Return" row.
- In order to sort the results on a field, mouse click on the 'unsorted' label in
- the "Sort" row.
- If you want to remove a field from the result zone, click on it's name and
- then hit the "Delete" key.
- Pressing the "Show SQL" button will display the SQL command that will be
- build from the current tables and result columns. Clicking on the canvas will
- make it dissapear and the table layout will be displayed again.
- Check the query execution by pressing on the "Execute SQL" button. If the
- query has been executed without error, a query viewer will be displayed and
- you will be able to see the selected rows. When everything is ok, save the
- query command to the query builder by pressing the "Save to query builder"
- button.
- "