The Manager Toolbars

You use the manager toolbars to open the DataView development tools, specifying settings for your application or to get several kinds of information. As an alternative for the toolbars you can use the right mouse key to open the manager menu. It provides the same functions like the toolbars, but additionally offers the possibility to open existing application-specific default master lists. The manager toolbars and the manager menu are only available to -> developing users.


Mask Toolbar

Toolbar Button Action Confer
Opens the Entity Data form.
You create entities, entity types, relations, and links, you create the corresponding database tables and default masks.
-> Creating Models
Opens the Link Data form.
You manage links between database tables.
Opens the data class system list.
You create data classes to extend the data model by object-oriented components.
-> Data Classes
Opens the Mask Data form.
You create masks with fields, and install the mask functions.
-> Masks and Fields
Opens the Field Data form.
You manage fields in database tables and masks.
Opens the Menu Data form.
You create menus with items and button areas with buttons.
-> Menus and Items,
-> Button Areas and Buttons
Opens the Item Data form.
You manage items for menus and buttons for button areas.
Opens the Message Data list.
You create messages.
-> Messages
Opens the event-data system list.
You define user-specific key functions. The list additionally displays all DataView system events.
-> Events
Opens the Default Data list.
You define variables and user-specifically assign values. Additionally, this list displays all DataView system default variables.
-> Variables
Opens the Group Data form.
You create groups, assign users to groups and assign group profiles.
-> Create Users, Groups and Privileges
Opens the User Data form.
You create users, determine their membership to groups and assign profiles to users.
Opens the Profile Data form.
You create profiles in order to control access of users and groups to menu items and buttons.
Opens the form of the binary loader. -> Binary Loader
Displays all DataView system entities and application objects created in them, using the browser window.

-> Graphical Browser
Opens a document for an ActiveX-document-server installed at the client on the Dataview desktop, e.g. a Word document. -
-> Open
-> Application
Only in the Manager menu. Opens default lists of existing entities in the data model of the application. This function is useful if the application does not contain any functions for calling lists, yet. -> Creating Models


Settings Toolbar

Toolbar Button Action Confer
First Choice Box Updates the group assignments for the current user in accordance to the selection in the choice box.
-> Default Group and Changing Groups
Updates the password for the current user.

-> Passwords
Stance the SQL trace.
You test the interaction of the application with the database.
-> SQL-Trace
Second Choice Box Changes the system language (language for objects of the user interface and meta data).
-> Language Management
Third Choice Box Changes the user data language (language for user data).


Info Toolbar

Toolbar Button Action Confer
Displays version information about DataView server and DataView client.
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Displays information about current user (name, UIC, group assignment, GIC, access in the group, user profile). -
Opens the registration monitor.
You get information about running DataView-and RDE-processes .
-> Registration Monitor
Opens the starting page of the DataView online help.
-> Help Functions