The database management module provides several useful functions to manage its databases and files. These functions are:
• Create a Database
Touch this button to create a new database. Provide the name of the base, containing only non-accented lowercase letters, or numbers.
>>> A test verifies that the base does not already exist on your tablet.
• Delete Database
Select the database to delete in the drop-down menu. A double confirmation is required.
>>> Warning: this deletion is irreversible.
• Delete an image folder
Choose the image folder to delete in the drop-down menu. A double confirmation is required.
>>> If the connected database does not have an image folder, a message will alert you.
>>> Warning: this deletion is irreversible.
• Create a file in the Base
>>> Reminder: Managed files with "MaBase" are included in a database. Each database can include multiple files. To create a file, you must first create a database, and then connect to that database.
>>> The currently connected Base is indicated at the bottom of each module.
After creating a database and have connected to this base, you can create in this base a first file (or a new file) by touching the "Create a file in the Database" button. In the files creation module, follow the instructions of the "Manual" button.
• Modify a File
Press this button to access a module to correct a file. The button "Instructions for use" of this module gives instructions on its operation.
>>> The possible changes to the structure of a "Mabase" file are the addition or deletion of fields, the number of lines to display for each field and the order of the fields. However, you can not change the names of previously created fields.
The file correction module also allows:
- to assign to each field a library of values, in order to improve the speed of data entry and the standardization of the filling of certain fields.
- to create one or more image fields (under the generic name MB_IMAGE_n).
- to assign a "directory" function to a field.
- to assign a "phone" function to a field.
- to assign a "mail" function to a field.
>>> For these various functions, refer to the online help of the file correction module.
• Delete a file from the Database
This button opens a menu listing the files present in the database currently connected. Choose this menu the name of the file to be deleted. The selected file is permanently deleted after double validation.
>>> If no database is currently connected, a message warns.
>>> If the currently connected base contains no file, a message warns.
>>> Caution: Deleting File is irreversible.
• Import cards into the file
This button refers to a module that offers the possibility of importing a Tabbed Text File into a "MaBase" database. The instructions provided by the user manual associated with this module will be followed.
• Export records
The "Export records" button sends to the export module. The instructions provided by the user manual associated with this module will be followed.