DB Manager / AUTOPOST Button

Database Manager

The DB Manager button can be used to perform routine maintenance activities on ICAM databases. All of the functions available with the QUEST Database Navigator are also available from the DB Manager dialog. These include, for example, the ability to add, rename, copy and delete post-processors, as well as the ability to create new databases and move or copy post-processors between them. The database manager can also be used to add or remove password protection on a database.

The following panel will appear when the DB Manager button is pressed. The upper half of the DB Manager dialog lists the databases in the same way as the QUEST database navigator; the lower half logs the status of any changes.

One of the most important functions of the DB Manager is to import into the database CAM-POST post-processors, Virtual Machine models and Control Emulators that have been provided to you in an “export” format. Select the production database, press the right-mouse button, and then choose Import from the pop-up context menu. You can use the Import feature to load dedicated posts, models and control emulators (files with a dp file extension), exported posts, models and control emulators (files with a dmp file extension) and even the content of entire databases (files with dbf file extension) into the selected database.

The Import panel includes a “Detect new/updated files on the next run” checkbox that, if selected, will notify you when exported files are added to or changed in the last directory used by the Import feature. This test is performed each time the launch panel is run. It checks for exported files more recent than the date of the last import.

AUTOPOST (requires "xqs" license)

If you have an AUTOPOST license, then the "DB Manager" button will be changed to "AUTOPOST". AUTOPOST has all of the same database functionality as the DB Manager, but also gives you access to the "New Post Wizard" and "Modification Wizard". These Wizards, normally only available from QUEST, provide the ability to create and modify post-processors.

In AUTOPOST mode, the toolbar New and Modify buttons are used to call the wizards.