Connecting to the application database
While building the sample application, you define application screens and menus for the DynSports database. This database was designed using the ERwin data modeling tool. Progress Dynamics comes with an ERwin template for creating databases with tables and fields that follow the Progress Dynamics naming conventions. ERwin has generated all the database triggers for the DynSports database.
You must connect to the DynSports database before starting to work on the tutorial. In Chapter 5, "Customizing the Application," you build a session type into the Configuration Manager to automatically make the connection when the finished application starts. The standard ICFDEV session type already contains an entry for the Repository. When it reads that session type from the configuration file at startup, the Configuration Manager automatically orders the Repository to be connected.
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To connect to the DynSports database: |
- From the AppBuilder main menu, select Tools
Database Connections. The Database Connections dialog box appears: - Choose the Connect button.
- Browse for the tutorial DynSports database, as shown:
- Choose the Options>> button and select the Multiple Users toggle box, as shown:
- Choose OK and then close the Database Connections dialog box.
