7 articles about Queries, in reading order.
Parsware Platform
A saved query in Parsware is a question your solution owns. Build one in the query designer from a table, the tables joined to it, the columns it returns and the conditions that narrow it, and every save is checked against the environment's real tables before anything can use it.
Parsware Platform
A saved query in Parsware is one question with one definition. A report fills its table from it, and a server script runs it by name, so correcting the question once corrects every answer that names it, in this environment and in the next one the solution goes to.
Parsware Platform
A Parsware query can answer "how many" and "how much" as well as "which". Group records by a column, count and sum them, keep only the groups that pass a test, and take the top five, all in the query designer, with the database doing the arithmetic.
Parsware Platform
A server-side script can read more than the record it's working on. getRecord fetches one record, queryRecords and countRecords match one field, and runQuery takes a whole query with and/or filters, joins and totals. We used them in a plugin step that refuses an invoice when a customer would go over their credit limit, and in a Custom API that joins two tables.
For Power Apps
A view returns rows and can't add them up. For totals, counts and averages by group, a Parsware report reads a FetchXML aggregate, so Dataverse does the arithmetic and the report prints the answer. Here's a table of expense totals by currency and status, from one pasted query.
For Power Apps
A query pasted into a report lives in that one report. A saved query lives once, has a name, and can be published into a solution beside the reports that use it, so it arrives in Test and Production with them. Here's the expense totals query from earlier, published and named by a report.
For Power Apps
Wherever the Parsware designer needs something from your Dataverse environment, a table, a view, a saved query or a column, it offers a list read from that environment rather than a box to type in. Here is every one of those pickers, what each lists, and the few places you still type a name.
