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by giulioco 851 days ago
Good point. While the visual query builder is meant to be more like a playground to play around while crafting your queries, at the end of the day it just provides you with an API request body (json) that can also be hand-crafted. The VQB is also a way to craft and save query “aliases” with their own permissions.

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