About the Information Object Designer environment
Information Object Designer is built on the Eclipse integrated development environment. For information about perspectives and other Eclipse features, see the Workbench User Guide in the online help.
Information Object Designer is available as the IO Design perspective in BIRT Designer Professional or as a standalone application used with e.Report Designer Professional or BIRT Spreadsheet Designer. Standalone Information Object Designer installs with e.Report Designer Professional. If you are using BIRT Spreadsheet Designer, you must install Information Object Designer separately.
The default IO Design perspective appears as shown in Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1  
 
The IO Design perspective displays the following views:
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The Navigator view displays the contents of your projects. A project consists of data connection definitions, external procedures, maps, information objects, cache connection definitions, cache objects, and report designs.
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You create the information object’s SQL query, either graphically or textually, in the query definition view.
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The properties view displays the properties of the selected item, for example a table or column.
To toggle the display of properties in categories, choose Show Categories.
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The problems view displays error messages.
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The SQL Preview view displays the information object’s SQL query.
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The Data Preview view displays map or information object output.
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The Query Profiler view displays the query execution plan.
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The iServer Explorer view displays your iServer profiles.

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