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ACTIVATING A DATABASE

In the SPRING system, the information is organized in Databases, which are stored in a folder named with the same name as the Database. In order to use the SPRING a Database has to be active. Next we will show how to turn an specific Database active.

  Activating a Database:
  • click in File and Database ..., in the main menu, or in the button   in the toolbar. The window "Databases" will show up.

  • click in Directory...;
  • the window "Directory Selection"; will show up. In this window, select the folder C:\Program Files\spring42_Eng\springdb where the database "DF" was installed (as shown below).

    IMPORTANT: Every database corresponds to a folder which includes other folders and files. The SPRING system recognizes that a folder is a database, in this case "DF", thus click only the folder immediately above the one which has the database, in this case springdb.;

  • click the OK button ;
  • The Directory Selection window closes and we are back to the Databases window, select DF in the list;
  • click on Activate/Load so the database will be activated.

NOTES:

    The SPRING windows have action buttons in their bottom part. The Close button closes the window and does not execute any action. The Help button starts the "on-line" Help. In order to use the on-line help the Internet Explorer Browser (IE) has to be installed in your computer. If you don't have IE installed in your machine or if you don't want to install IE, you can still access the help files directly using the file c:\Program Files\spring42_Eng\helpeng\indice.htm, loading this file in any other browser or editor. 

    In the "Databases" window there are the buttons Delete and Create.. The Delete button removes all the data from the selected database from the Databases list. The Create button allows a new database to be created. These buttons can not be used if the data is stored in a CDROM drive.



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