Quick facts: Tools

The Tools console contains several tools and utilities for iMIS administrators. Only iMIS users who are members of the SysAdmin role can access Tools.

Tools provides access to files, objects, and queries which define your iMIS system. Through easy-to-use tools you can manage your iMIS system, access and modify underlying business objects and queries, and integrate to third-party applications. Tools features include:

Document System

■    Is the web-based document management system for your entire iMIS system

■    Unifies management, versioning, and security of your organization’s content assets

IQA Queries

■    Offer simple access to iMIS data for reporting, mailings, or letter and email merges

■    Provide ability to create sophisticated queries against the iMIS database even if you have limited experience with SQL

■    Use iMIS business objects and other queries as data sources

■    Secure access to queries and the underlying data

Business Object Designer (BOD)

■    Define and test iMIS business objects using a flexible design interface

Workflow

■    Monitor the iMIS workflow engine and process engine

Utilities

■    Manage all Document System folders and definition objects that support iMIS functionality

■    Auto-create new business objects from user-defined tables created by the iMIS Customizer

■    Check for updates to iMIS

Reports

■    Easily identify reporting objects in the Document System