Specifications

14 System Overview
ID Works Basic Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
Individual computers in your system can have different processing
capabilities without significantly affecting how projects are used, but
different monitor capabilities may affect how the Production window
appears. If you develop and test your project on a large format, high
resolution monitor but the Production operators will be using smaller
monitors with lower screen resolution, there may be a difference in
what the operators see. Consider developing and testing your
projects with a display that matches the lowest common denominator
display in your overall system.
You must make some configuration settings, such as the one for
converting graphics to grayscale for printing with one-color ribbons,
on each computer in your system.
Software Components
If possible, update all computers in your system with new ID Works
Basic software at the same time. Projects are usable going forward
but are not usable going backward. After an ID Works Basic project is
saved with a new version of ID Works Basic Designer, older versions
of ID Works applications will not be able to open the project. If you
must change your ID Works project while some of the computers in
your system are using an older version of ID Works Basic, make the
changes on a computer that still uses the older version of ID Works
Basic Designer.
Database Considerations
Will your Production users be accessing a central database on the
network? If so, it is recommended that you use the universal naming
convention full path name (starting with \\), not a mapped drive, to
specify the database connection on the Data Source tab of the
Project Properties dialog box. Using the full path name means you do
not have to ensure that all the computers in your system map drives
the same way. See Chapter 5, Using Databases with ID Works
Projects for more information.
If your Production users will work with a copy of the database on a
local hard drive, the database must be located in exactly the same
path on all computers in the system.
Consider developing stored database searches for queries that your
Production operators will perform repeatedly. Stored searches are