Setting Progress Dynamics projects

You must set up a Dynamics project with Progress Dynamics to develop Progress Dynamics applications in Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge. The Progress Dynamics Repository provides dynamic objects which you can use to develop Progress Dynamics applications in OpenEdge.

The Progress Dynamics Repository stores data for a wide variety of purposes. Most application objects are represented as data stored in the Repository, so you do not need to create, compile, deploy, or maintain the source code for them. The framework includes programs that render these objects at run time from the data in the Repository.

Before you set up your dynamics project to work with Progress Dynamics, you must install and configure the OpenEdge Studio which includes Progress Dynamics. See OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration for complete instructions. You can access this and other Progress Dynamics manuals in the OpenEdge Product Documentation section of the Progress Communities web site.

To set up a Progress Dynamics project:

Create a Dynamics project in OpenEdge. See Create a Dynamics project.
Enable Dynamics for the selected dynamics project. See AppBuilder properties page.
Establish the Repository database (ICFDB.db) connection to the Dynamics project. You must connect to ICFDB.db to access the Progress Dynamics tools in the Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge. See Adding a new database connection to a projectAdding a new database connection to a project.
After you set up a Progress Dynamics project, start Dynamics DB Servers to start working with the Progress Dynamics objects. On the Windows, Start > All > Programs menu, select Progress > OpenEdge > Progress Dynamics > Start Dynamics DB Servers.
The Progress Dynamics DB Server is now started. You can get started working with the dynamics objects.