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Start Page Help
On start of application Valentina Studio shows you Start Page. This page is designed to help you easy start your job. It has 3 main areas to work with:
- Valentina Projects (reports)
- Local Databases (Valentina DB and SQLite)
- Remote DB Servers (Valentina Server, Postgre SQL, mySQL, …)
Working with Valentina Projects
On the left side of the start page you can see:
- List of “Recent Project” where you can choose one and by single click open it. Right click on a recent item opens contextual menu where you can delete the item. To delete all items in the list you can choose menu “Project → Open Recent Project → Clear” or do the right click on the title of the list “Recent Projects”.
- Button “Create Project” that has sub-menu to choose between LOCAL and SERVER locations of the project file.
- Button “Open Project” that has sub-menu to choose between LOCAL and SERVER locations of the project file.
Working with Local Databases
In the middle area of the start page you can see:
- List of “Recent Local Databases” where you can choose one and by single click open it. Right click on a recent item opens contextual menu where you can delete the item. To delete all items in the list you can choose menu “File → Open Recent Database → Clear” or do the right click on the title of the list “Recent Local Databases”.
- Button “Open Local Database …”, which opens that standard Open Dialog of your OS where you can choose
- a Valentina database file (.vdb)
- a SQLite database file (can have different extension)
Working with Remote Servers
On the right side of the start page you can see:
- Two lists.
- The “Bookmarks” list. For each bookmark you can see on its right red or green ball, which indicates the current status of the server. The title of the “Bookmarks” list has contextual menu with Refresh command, which allows you force refresh state of bookmarked servers. On default Valentina Studio refresh it once per minute. You can disable this feature in the preferences of Valentina Studio.
- The “Recent Connections” list, where you can choose one and by single click open it. Right click on a recent item opens contextual menu where you can delete the item. To delete all items in the list you can choose menu “File → Open Recent Connections → Clear” or do the right click on the title of the list “Recent Connections”.
- Button “Create Bookmark” allows to create a new bookmark.
- Button “Connect to…” that opens Connect Dialog to establish a new connection to a remote DB server (Valentina Server, Postgre SQL, mySQL, … ).