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Queries may be saved as private queries, visible only to the author, or published to a wider audience (Cimera groups)

 

A user may only publish to a group if they have been assigned the Report Publisher role on the group. Administrators may publish queries such that they are visible to all users. Administrators may also edit any query and re-assign ownership.

 

The publishing settings may be edited by selecting Menu File > Properties...

 

 

Queries default to being private.

 

Name

 

The name of the query

 

Description

 

The query's description. This will appear when hovering over the query in the Shortcut Bar

 

Category

 

The Shortcut Bar category that the query should appear within. Either select an existing category or enter a new one. When a category has no entries (either private or published) it will be removed from the Shortcut Bar.

 

Visibility

 

Whether the query is private or public. If Public is selected more choices appear:

 

 

Owner / Owning Group

 

The owner of the query - either a user (for a private query) or a group (for a public query). All public queries must be owned by a group and other users on that group with the Report Publisher role may then make changes to the query.

 

Restrict access to these groups

 

For a public query this determines the groups that the query is visible to. If no groups are selected then the query is visible to all Cimera users, however only an administrator can make a query fully public.

 

 

Accessing saved / published queries

 

Saved queries will appear in the Shortcut Bar. A private query has an icon of a magnifying glass and a public query has a magnifying glass with a + symbol top-right, for example:

 

 

In addition saved queries also appear in the Query menu:

 

 

Queries within categories appear in sub-menus.

 

Published queries are annotated with [public].