Connecting to and disconnecting from a server

You must connect Relationship Manager to InterChange Server Express to work with relationship instances and data. Follow the instructions in the following sections to connect Relationship Manager to a server and disconnect Relationship Manager from it:

Connecting to InterChange Server Express

Do the following to connect Relationship Manager to InterChange Server Express:

  1. Select Server > Connect to Server from the menu bar of Relationship Manager.
  2. Do one of the following to populate the name of the InterChange Server Express instance to which you want to connect in the Server Name field:
  3. Type the user name to interact with the InterChange Server Express instance in the User Name field.
  4. Type the password for the user name supplied in step 3 in the Password field.
  5. If you do not want to have to supply the user name and password each time you have to connect to the InterChange Server Express instance in System Manager then enable the Remember user name and password checkbox.
  6. If you want to open a relationship at this time type the name of the relationship definition in the Relationship field.

    If you do not want to open a relationship at this time you can open it after connecting to the server. For more information, see Opening a relationship.

  7. Click Connect.

    If you connect to InterChange Server Express in Relationship Manager and specify a relationship to open as described in step 6, then Relationship Manager displays the "retrieve relationships" window, described in Retrieving relationship instances.

    Figure 43 shows the "Connect to InterChange Server Express" dialog.

    Figure 43. Connecting to InterChange Server Express


Disconnecting from InterChange Server Express

To disconnect Relationship Manager from InterChange Server Express, select Server > Disconnect from the menu bar of Relationship Manager.

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