Every time the user will creates a new report (after creation of the new object Report) he/she must specify data sources, from which XL Report Builder should take information. For this object Database is to be used. Objects Database are the child objects of the object Report. That’s why for creating the object Database the user has to select the object Report (make it active in the objects tree), and then to create the object Database using one of two possible ways:

• Using the item of the main menu of the program File\New\Database
• Using the pop-up menu of the object tree New\Database

Immediately after doing this operation a new object Database with the name «Database1» will appear in the objects tree under the object Report. In the window of properties will appear a list of all its properties (look at the picture below).

Like the object Report, object Database has the property Caption. Using this property the program identifies the database in the report and connects to it other objects.

To connect the object Database to the existing database, the second property of the object Database – «ODBC Alias» should be used. This property can be entered manually or the user can do this through pressing the button with suspension points and choosing the Alias he needs from the list of Aliases that are installed into the system .

The last two properties of the object Database (UserName and Password) need to be specified according to the access rights the user has to the database.

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