Session menu
Figure 1–4 shows the options in the Session menu. You use this menu to configure Progress Dynamics sessions with OpenEdge™ and system resources, and to set up options for session operations that are independent of the application that is running.
The Session menu contains the following functions:
- Session Type Control — Defines the different types of sessions in which applications can run. For example, sessions configured for development, application run time, WebClient™ n-tier operation, and so on.
- Generate Configuration File — Generates a configuration XML file that contains the startup configuration for any selection of session types that you have defined in the Repository.
- Configuration File Import — Allows you to import a configuration XML file that you might have modified manually, allowing you to synchronize it with the Repository.
- Session Type Control Data — Defines what session types are allowed to run in a Progress Dynamics installation. It specifies how to handle session types that are connected by a client and are not registered in the Repository or that are configured without a clear indication of where, between the Repository and the configuration XML file, to resolve their settings.
- Session Property Control — Defines the run-time options that traditionally apply to the
SESSIONhandle, but also additional options that Progress Dynamics requires or you find helpful in defining the run-time environment for a session. - Service Type Control — Defines the basic types of services that make up a session type and thus become session services, such as database and Progress® AppServer™ services.
- Logical Service Control — Defines a component of session services that specifies the more abstract characteristics of a service type, providing greater flexibility in service definition to handle various local and remote configurations of the same physical services.
- Physical Service Control — Defines the connection parameters that establish connections between a client and a specific physical database, AppServer, or other service.
- Manager Type Control — Specifies standard or custom session managers, the persistent procedures that, along with the Repository, provide the core of Progress Dynamics functionality.
- Profile Control — Defines operational options that a user can enable or disable for a current session or to apply more permanently across multiple sessions, such as maintaining window sizes and positions, default SmartDataObject™ preferences, and so on.
- Global Control — Defines system control defaults. These are parameters that determine the system operation, such as date format and currency.
For more information on using these session management functions, see Chapter 2 "Defining and Managing Sessions" and the session management white paper posted on the following PSDN Web site: