DBERA

Maintains era records on the database

DBERA is designed to:

Make it easier for you to keep track of changes you have made to your database during QA Build system development.
Simplify the task of distributing changes to other developers working on the QA Build system. See Version Control in the QA Build Developer's Manual.

In future, other programs that create export files for transferring source-code or dictionary information (MAPEDIT, COPYDB, REPSETUP, IMPSETUP) may be enhanced in the same way.

Using DBERA

When you run DBERA, you see the following options in the menu bar:

File	Specifies the application database you want to use. You are presented with a menu of existing era records; none will exist initially
Insert	Allows you to create a new era record. Having selected this option, a window appears in which you must specify: Your reference Enter the name of the era. You can use any characters, but only letters and digits are significant. Internal reference This is calculated by the system. It is 1 to start with and then incremented by 1 for each new era. Brief description Two lines of text describing the era. (Optionally, you can enter extended documentation - see the Details option)
View	Toggles dispaly being sorted on era name and by era time.
Delete	Deletes the currently highlighted era record
Details	Allows you to enter more extensive documentation for an era records. This option gives you access to a full screen editor, similar to the DP4ED, with text editing, box drawing and text colouring facilities.