Data Location

The Data Location is the place where all the details of your setup, the Systems, Links and Subjects are stored and referenced by the software when you run DataPA OpenAnalytics.

If you have previously selected a number of different data locations, you can easily switch between them by selecting them in the drop down history list on the right of the window.

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It is often the case that you will want more than one user to share the setup data. As such, the Data Location can be a network drive, a DataPA Enterprise server, a Progress AppServer or a web server.

To set your Data Location to a local or network drive, follow these steps;

1.	Select Stored as static files on a local or shared drive.

2.	Type or browse to the folder where you want the data stored.

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To set your Data Location to a DataPA Enterprise Server, follow these steps;

1.	Select Stored on a DataPA Enterprise server

2.	Enter the address of the server. This could be an IP address, or a domain name that identifies the server on the network. For example, if your Enterprise server is installed on a machine that is hosted on the domain www.mydomain.com, enter www.mydomain.com.

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To set your Data Location to a Progress AppServer, follow these steps;

First you need to copy the setup files you wish to share to the appropriate location. To locate the setup files see your current DataLocation in the Security Settings dialog box. Copy the files Partitions.dat, Links.dat, Lookups.dat, Conditions.dat, Subjects.dat and SDOs.dat from this directory to the working directory of the AppServer.

2.	Select Stored on a Progress AppServer

3.	Enter the AppServer URL that represents the connection (see below for details), or select the browse button to build it using the AppServer Connection Details window.

4.	If the AppServer is a state-free AppServer, check the AppServer specified is a state free AppServer checkbox.

5.	If you wish to store the DataPA setup data in your database (see KB104 for details), select the In the database (requires bespoke business logic to store and retrieve) option.

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Below are the details of how to define an AppServer URL;

To connect to the AppServer through the NameServer, use the following syntax:

AppServer://<HOST>[:<PORT NUMBER>]/<APPSERVICE>

[?[username=<USERNAME>][&password=<PASSWORD>][&prompt=true]

[&appserverinfo=<APPSERVERINFO]]

e.g. AppServer://localhost/sports2000

AppServer://localhost:5162/sports2000

AppServer://localhost/sports2000?prompt=true

AppServer://localhost/sports2000?appserverinfo=123456

To connect to the AppServer directly, use the following syntax:

AppServerDC://<HOST>:<PORT NUMBER>/<APPSERVICE>

[?[username=<USERNAME>][&password=<PASSWORD>][&prompt=true]

[&appserverinfo=<APPSERVERINFO]]

e.g. AppServerDC://localhost:5162/sports2000

AppServerDC://localhost:3093/sports2000?username=Nick&password=pwd123

To connect through the Aia, use the standard Progress Aia connection URL.

To set your Data Location to a webserver, follow these steps;

First you need to copy the setup files you wish to share to the appropriate location. To locate the setup files see your current DataLocation in the Client Settings dialog box. Copy the files Partitions.dat, Links.dat, Lookups.dat, Conditions.dat, Subjects.dat and SDOs.dat from this directory to the web server.

1.	Select the Stored on a webserver option.

2.	Enter the fully qualified URL of the directory on the webserver.

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