Using The Data File Link Window

The Data File Link Window is the "editing" window for Data File Link records.

Before you can edit a Data File Link record you first have to locate and display that record in an "Index" window, such as the Data File Links Index Window (image below), which lists all the Data File Link records in the project.

You can open this window by clicking on the Data File Links Index hyperlink found at the top of almost every window in the software.

Once you've located the Data File Link record in the "Index" window, single click on it to select it, and then click the Edit Selected Data File Record hyperlink (image above) to load the record into it's editing window (image below).

If you click on the Open The Source Data File hyperlink, you'll see the contents of that file displayed, in the software that your computer uses to work with that type of computer file.

The Data File Link record above is linked to an image file, and my computer uses the Windows Photo Viewer software to display image files.

To delete the Data File Link record that the window is working with, just click on the Delete This Data File Record hyperlink.

You'll see a dialog box pop up on the screen and it's asking you to confirm the deletion.

Click the Yes button and the dialog box and the Data File Link window will close.

The file get's deleted from its database and all of its linked parent records.

You can change which computer file the record is linked to by clicking on the Change The Source Data File hyperlink.

After you click this link, a File Navigation Dialog box like the one shown below pops up.

Use it to locate and select the new computer file.

Then double click anywhere on that file's entry in the dialog box to have the record link to it.

Or, single click on it, and then click on the Open button.

The dialog box closes and the File Name and File Path fields change their values.