With the Panel Designer, you can not only craft reusable panels that combine fields from many tables, but you can also define new data structures (business objects and properties) to manage information for your organization. Without special tools or knowledge of the iMIS schema, you can add data sources on the fly, right from your browser. When you save the panel, you have saved your newly created data sources. These are some key innovations it brings beyond iMIS Customizer:
■ Uses SOA to define and populate panels, which you can reuse across many iPart instances
■ Lets you drag and drop fields from multiple tables, as well as drag entire tables of fields
■ Supports multi-instance (more than one entry per contact) tables in their own panels
■ Dynamically updates in design mode as you add, move, and delete fields
■ Lets you customize each field for its label, read-only status, and visibility in the initial view
■ Allows you to create your own fields from the Panel Designer itself
■ Lets you combine data sources across your legacy user-defined tables and business objects that are linked to Customer tables