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Configuration

Variables

If anything doesn't work as expected it's most likey that some of the variables internal to dbengine.cgi are not configured properly.
Therefore open the file you specified during setup as configuration file and/or the CGI itself in your favorite editor and change the few available variables to values that are valid for your local system as follows:

Database

To make your database appereance more configurable dbengine needs a couple of additional tables. These are used to store information about the look of your records on the screen and other information used by dbengine.
Keep in mind that dbengine always displays a list of ALL tables a database provides in the left frame. Therefore it makes no sense in most cases to store the internal fields in the same database region as your user tables.

For Oracle there's a concept that allows for different user tables on the same database. Also due to the more complex setup mechanism for additional databases I decided to store everything in the same database, but use different users to access either "user tables" or "dbengine tables".
Following are the sqlplus commands you need to setup the two users on your default database that will be accessed by the default parameters of dbengine:

For PostgreSQL there's an optional automatic database setup for two different databases (i.e. cis and cisinfo) provided during make install. The same is true for MySQL.

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