The Palettes Panel

The Palettes panel appears when Data Access is launched. If it has been closed and you want to open it, choose Palettes from the Tools menu in the Views Studio Main window.

The Palettes panel is divided into two panes. The top pane displays a tree with various items, each corresponding to a particular gadget or graphic palette. The topmost items are for the Data Access palettes. They are:

• a gadgets palette, which appears when you highlight Data Access

• SQL gadgets

• SQL tables, which is not a gadget, lists all user-created data tables and contains an SQL schema editor.

• Charts, which presents a graphic chart connected to various data sources.

• Grapher, which presents contents of a nodes and links data source in a grapher

• Gantt Chart, for defining a Gantt chart connected to various data sources

To use a gadget, drag it from the Palette and drop it in the work space in the Main window.