Specifications

CHAPTER 1 Working with InfoMaker
Users Guide 19
Opening painters
Painters that edit
objects
There are several ways to open painters that edit objects:
Other painters
Most other painters are accessible from the New dialog box. Some are also
available on the PowerBar and from the Tools menu.
Painter summary
The InfoMaker painters are listed in Table 1-1.
Table 1-1: InfoMaker painters
Using views in painters
Most of the InfoMaker painters and tools have views. Each view provides a
specific way of viewing or modifying the object you are creating or a specific
kind of information related to that object. Having all these views available in a
painter window means you can work on more than one task at a time.
From here You can
PowerBar Click New (to create new objects) or Open (to open existing
objects)
Library painter Double-click an object or select Edit from the object’s pop-up
menu
Painter What you do
Report painter Build and preview reports of data in your database
Form painter Build and run forms to display and change data in your database
Database painter Maintain databases, control user access to databases, manipulate
data in databases, and create tables
Data Pipeline
painter
Transfer data from one data source to another and save a pipeline
object for reuse
Library painter Manage libraries and create executable versions of reports,
forms, and pipelines
Query painter Graphically define and save SQL
SELECT statements for reuse
with reports, forms, and pipelines
Select painter Graphically define SQL SELECT statements for reports, forms,
and pipelines