Re: Help: how to setup an oracle designer/2000 user

Getting started with Designer/2000

How Do I Create and Maintain Repository Users?

To create new Repository users, or change the access rights of existing ones, you need to use the Repository Administration Utility. Normally access to the Repository Administration Utility is limited to the username identified during Repository installation or upgrade as the Repository owner.

Start the Repository Administration Utility by clicking its icon on the Designer/2000 window. When the Repository Administration Utility window is displayed, you can follow the instructions for maintaining Repository users.

How Do I Fill In the Connect Dialog Box?

To get into Designer/2000, you need to fill in the Connect dialog box, which acts as a security check for the system.

You'll definitely need a username and password. If you don't have these already, ask your system administrator to give you an account on the system. For security reasons, the password is shown as asterisks as you type it in.

You might also need to enter a connect string consisting of a database alias name. This alias name enables you to connect to the database that you will be using with Designer/2000. However, your system administrator may have coded the alias name into the Windows Registry, in which case you can leave this field empty.

When all the fields are filled in correctly, either press RETURN or click OK. Designer/2000 then displays the Application System dialog box.

What Is an Application System?

When you design databases and applications in Designer/2000, you store a large amount of information about your organization and its requirements, as well as the designs themselves. You enter and maintain this data in the Designer/2000 Repository, a kind of online information storehouse for your business.

Information that is relevant to a particular application is kept together in a single grouping and given a name. Such a grouping is known as an application system. An application system acts as a container for all the Repository objects (elements and associations) that belong to an application that you are designing.

How Do I Create an Application System?

You can create an application system at any time, provided that your username has been assigned the user role "Manager". Access rights such as this are granted via the Repository Administration Utility. It is best to limit use of the Repository Administration Utility to the username identified as the Repository owner.

When you start Designer/2000, you connect to your Oracle database, after which you see the Application System dialog box. If no application systems exist yet, the dialog box is empty, otherwise it lists the application systems that have already been created.

To create a new application system, type its name in the Application System field and click the Create button.

You can also create an application system from almost all of the Designer/2000 menus - just choose File®Change Application System. In the Application System dialog box, type the name of the new application system in the Application System field and click the Create button.

The exception to the above is the Repository Object Navigator. To create a new application system from within this tool, click the button on its main toolbar.

Where Should I Start?

As you've probably discovered, Designer/2000 provides you with an extensive set of tools for designing and generating your database and applications. Choosing the best tool to get you started depends on the development approach you want to take, as this table shows:

If you want to... Also known as the... Start with Perform business analysis to model your business processes, before proceeding with systems analysis, design and generation Process Modeling approach Process Modeller
Perform systems analysis to model your business system requirements, before proceeding with design and generation Information Engineering (IE) approach Entity Relationship Diagrammer, Dataflow Diagrammer or Function Hierarchy Diagrammer
Use as much of an existing database and/or application as possible Design Capture approach Design Editor (Design Capture utilities) or Repository Object Navigator (Table to Entity Retrofit utility) Design and generate an application as quickly as possible Rapid Application Development (RAD) approach Design Editor or Repository Object Navigator

Caobin Zhu wrote in message <37195941.55149510_at_news.flash.net>...
>Hi, everyone,
> Please help. How to add a designer/2000 repository user? When
>I used the adminstration utilty try to add an orcle user, it does not
>show up their names at all? How to relate the oracle user to
>designer/2000 user?
>Thanks TIA.
Received on Mon Apr 19 1999 - 08:20:08 CDT