Connecting to and disconnecting from a server

You must connect Relationship Manager to InterChange Server 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:

Steps for connecting to Relationship Manager from InterChange Server

Perform the following steps to connect Relationship Manager to InterChange Server:

  1. Select Server > Connect from the menu bar of Relationship Manager. The Connect to InterChange Server dialog box appears (see Figure 33).

    Figure 33. Connect to InterChange Server

    The figure shows the dialog box used to connect to the InterChange Server. It includes fields, from top to bottom for Server Name, User name, password, a check box to save the username and password combination and the relationship.

  2. Do one of the following to populate the name of the InterChange Server instance to which you want to connect in the Server Name field:
  3. Type the user name to interact with the InterChange Server 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 instance in System Manager then select the Save user name and password check box.
  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 Steps for opening a relationship.

  7. Click Connect.

    If you connect to InterChange Server in Relationship Manager and specify a relationship to open as described in step 6, then Relationship Manager opens the Retrieve Relationship Instances window, described in Steps for retrieving relationship instances.

Steps for disconnecting from InterChange Server

Perform the following steps to disconnect Relationship Manager from InterChange Server:

  1. Select Server > Disconnect from the menu bar of Relationship Manager.

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