The physical location of your Instant Database Files are displayed in a tab marked "File Locations" in the Instant Database Tools screen. This screen can be accessed in two ways.

Via the Pathagoras drop down features list:

Click the Instant Database entry and then click Instant Database Tools from the sub-menu.

From the IDB screen:

   When you click the 'File Locations' tab, the resulting screen displays the current location of your Instant Database files. (And if you double click on the text box reflecting the path to the files, a standard Windows screen will open so that you can see the entire listing.)

   The default location of the Instant Database records is "C:\Program Files\Pathagoras\IDBs". If you have a single Pathagoras license, you will not likely be changing the location of your Instant Database records. But if you have purchased the Network version of the program, you may wish to share records via a common folder, and to do so you may have to move existing records (if any such records exist at the stage you are making these decisions), or a a minimum, repoint Pathagoras to a common location.

   Moving/repointing Instant Database file locations is easy. Simply display the IDB File Locations tab and either

1.  Type (manually) the full path to the 'common' folder into the text box; or

2.  Click inside of the text box (but type nothing). A navigation button will appear at the left side of the screen adjacent to the text box. Click the button and navigate to the desired folder.

   When finished, click the Save icon to lock in the choice.

NOTE: The Input Masks and Matter Data Records can be stored together or stored separately. It is a personal choice.

NOTE 2: Your MultiChoice *List* file is stored in the same folder as your Active Masks.

NOTE 3: There simply are no rules or best practices when it comes to sharing common Instant Database records. It all depends upon how your office is run. Some offices share everything, some offices share masks but not Matter Data. Some offices share nothing, and run all copies of the program as totally independent operations.

 

IDB Tools (File Locations tab exposed).

It does not matter where you locate your Matter records or Input Masks,

or what you call the folder in which they are saved

(although we do recommend using 'IDBs' as part of the path name).
If you wish to use a common set of records among all users, all users must point to the same location.

Page url: http://www.pathagoras.com/help/index.html?share_idb_records.htm