Creating AnyLabels databases
Selecting New from AnyLabels File menu displays the New Template dialog which allows you to create a new label template and/or connect to or create a database.
Entering a name in the “Create new empty label template file” edit box (or pushing the Browse button to name a file in a specific location) is all that is required to name the template file.
The template may be:
1) Not connected to any data source
2) Connected to an external ODBC source, or
3) Connected to an AnyLabels database that you are now about to create.
In the first two cases just pushing the OK button is all that is required. If you have selected “Using an external ODBC data source” then when you push the OK button and the New Template dialog closes the “Data source” dialog is displayed (see “Connecting to an existing data source” above).
If you have selected “Create new empty data file” Anylabels will suggest a filename and location for the database file – although you can change this by pushing the Browse button.
Unless you plan to immediately import data for a file that contains field names, it remains to specify the names of the fields for your new database, which you can do by pushing the Create fields button and entering the field names you wish to use in the “create fields” dialog.
(If you are importing a file that contains field names the number and names of the fields will be set automatically.)
If you are importing data immediately into your new database file check the “Import data from existing source on OK” checkbox. Then when you push the OK button the “Data source” dialog is displayed and you canselect the data that will be imported into your database file.
IMPORTANT: Note that when you create an AnyLabels database, whether by importing data or adding records manually, the FIRST record in the database MUST have all fields completed. This is because the data in the first record is used to determine the data type. You may need to include a dummy record as the first record in the database to ensure that this condition is fulfilled.