Enabling Control of What Content is Displayed

Aras Innovator has Query Builder and Tree Grid View, which provide an end-user with a graphic editor to define an ItemType query and bind the elements of that query to a Tree Grid View. The concept is like a Model and View respectively in the Model-View-Control paradigm typically used as a design guide in software engineering. The vision was to use these queries—known as Query Definitions—as a reusable data structure in such a way that other types of views could be constructed from them, like Graph Navigation Views. Query Definitions and their included conditional logic are used with DPN to identify the elements to be rendered in a 3D View, thus providing a convenient mechanism for users to control what elements are shown in the 3D Viewer.