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Global Resources

The Global Resources option enables you to connect to a database that has been defined as a global resource. The advantage of using a global resource is that you can quickly and easily change the database source for your SPS by changing the active configuration. Before you attempt to connect to a DB via a global resource, ensure that a global resource has been created for the database to which you wish to connect.

When you click the Global Resources icon in the Open Database dialog, all the database-type global resources that have been defined in the currently active Global Resources XML File are displayed. Select the required global resource and click Connect. If the selected global resource has more than one configuration, then the database resource for the currently active configuration (check Tools | Active Configuration or the Global Resources toolbar) is used, and the connection is made. You must now select the data structures and data to be used as described in DB Data Selection.

See also:

DB Data Selection, for a description of how to select tables or structures in the DB as the schema and data sources.

Defining Global Resources, for information about defining Global Resources.

Tools | Global Resources, for the menu command to access the Altova Global Resources dialog.

Tools | Active Configuration, for the menu command to change the active configuration of the application.

Connection Wizard, for information about connecting to a DB using StyleVision's Connection Wizard.

Datatype Conversions: DB to XSD, for mappings of DB datatypes to XSD datatypes when the XML Schema is generated from the DB.