Database

You can perform tasks related to the database under the Database menu option as follows:

Database ‣ Connect
Database ‣ Reopen
Database ‣ Backup
Database ‣ Subscriber
Database ‣ Expert Systems
Database ‣ Close
Database ‣ Your Profile
Database ‣ Change Password
Database ‣ Audit Log
Database ‣ Security
Database ‣ Properties
Database ‣ Export Repository
Database ‣ Show/Hide Status Bar

Connect

Use this menu option to connect to a database. For more information, see Connect to Database. If you have connected to this database before, instead, use Reopen as described below.

Reopen

Choose a database that you have opened in the past from this list to re-open it. If you have filled in Windows domain credentials (see Security, below) you should be immediately connected. If not, you will be asked for a NEXUS user name and password (which may not be the same as your Windows domain user name and password). Clicking the ‘eye’ next to the password field will temporarily reveal the text in the field.

Backup

Use this menu option to create a backup for your database. For more information, see Create a Backup.

Subscriber

Use this menu option to create, synchronize, or view subscriber databases. For more information, see Manage Subscriber Databases.

Expert Systems

Use this menu option to create and manage expert systems. For more information, see Manage Expert Systems.

Close

If you want to open a new database, close the currently open one first. Integrity Centre only allows you to have one database open at a time. If you would like two databases open at once, launch a second copy of Integrity Centre.

Your Profile

Under Database ‣ Your Profile, you can do the following:

You can view and/or change details about your own NEXUS user account on the Profile tab. If unit groups (that is, metric versus US weights and measures) are defined in your database, you can select your preferred unit group here.

On the Settings tab:

You can view your user settings for specific functionalities within NEXUS.

You can revert these settings to the default setting by selecting the relevant items in the list and choosing the Revert toolbar button.

You can copy the selected user settings to the settings of another user by choosing Copy to User and selecting a user from the dialog that appears.

You can set the selected settings as the default for all users by choosing Set Default.

You can export the settings to a file or send them in an email by choosing Export.

On the Favourite Reports tab, you can also select reports to be added to your Favourites, which you can then access under the Reports toolbar button (see Reports). To add a report to your favourites, choose Include and select the relevant report from the dialog. You can use the Exclude button to remove the selected reports from your favourites.

Change Password

To change your own NEXUS password, use this menu option. If you are using Windows credentials, this option is not useful or necessary, and will be greyed out.

Properties

This dialog allows you to view or edit a variety of values specific to your database. These include client name, client logo, paths for videos, a variety of default colours associated with drawings, a variety of settings associated with 3D drawings or risk models. For more information about the fields, see Properties Dialog.

You can also set up the email host that allows NEXUS IC to send emails (for example, to email a generated report or the contents of any of the grids). For more information, see Set Up Email.

The License tab contains details of your license key. As part of Software Based Licensing, this is where you will enter that license information.

Audit Log

This dialog shows you a list of user sessions with details about the changes performed during their sessions. For more information about how to interpret the dialog, see Audit Log Dialog.

Security

You can create users and user groups and set up their permissions as described in Manage User Security and Permissions.

Export Repository

Use this menu option to export all library items (including drawings) and event multimedia. (In previous versions, this option also exported survey data, but survey data in version 6 is no longer stored in the same way and is therefore not exported from this menu option.)

Show/Hide Status Bar

Under Database ‣ Show/Hide Status Bar, you can toggle the status bar at the bottom of the main screen of NEXUS IC on or off. For more information about the status bar, see Using the Status Bar.