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Database Operation - Dialogs

You can change the appearance of the Project Browser via Browser Options.

You can change the appearance of the Save As forms (Save Project As, Save Template As, Save Symbol As) via Save As Options.

You can change the appearance of the MTS History Viewer via MTS History Options.

You can change the appearance of the Customer Selector via Customer Options.

Options

Replace standard prompts with text from the DB windows

Specify whether to use the table/field names defined in the database structure (see Database Administration) or those in the DBW settings (Database Windows).

Confirm disconnect from database

Switching this option on produces an "Are you sure?" message when exiting from or reconnecting to the database.

Show verbose database errors

When database errors occur, a detailed error message from the ODBC drivers is generated. If this option is enabled, the message is shown on the screen. It may optionally also be written to a log file (see Database Installation - Options).

Disable customer lists used for selecting customers

Switch this option on to remove the drop-down list against customers on forms such as the Project Information form.

Use Browser to select symbols

This option allows you to use the Find button to locate the symbol whilst popping up the project browser which will default to the symbols folder.

Working Projects:

Show database browser when connecting and disconnecting

When connecting to and disconnecting from the database, the database browser is automatically displayed in the Project Browser, allowing projects to be released (updated or discarded).

Show database browser when a project is closed

As above, but when a project is closed.

Show only working projects in the database browser

If enabled, all parts of the Project Browser, except the working projects folder, are hidden during the above operations.

Display warning message when working project count exceeds

Enter a value between 1 and 100. This limits the number of working projects a user can have. If this number is exceeded, then users will be warned to release or delete some of their projects when connecting to the database, e.g.

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