Chapter 3. Database

Table of Contents

3.1. Login
3.2. Data Cleanup
3.3. Switching the user
3.4. Changing the language

3.1. Login

After starting from the OMNITREND Report menu and given a valid OMNITREND Web license for the user currently logged into OMNITREND, you will be taken directly to the OMNITREND Web user interface. Normally no login dialog box appears and you can immediately start editing reports with the database that just opened.

There are other options for working with OMNITREND Web, however:

Following starting in ...

  • the Windows Start menu (Start -> Programs -> OMNITREND -> OMNITREND Web ...) or

  • at the Website of the OMNITREND server

... a login dialog box requests the input of user name, password and selection of the database. The validity of the user, the password and the license is then checked.

The following paragraph applies only to the multi-user version:

The program first searches for a new software version of OMNITREND Web at the server, and then and starts it. A security warning appears requesting your consent to start the program, referring to PRÜFTECHNIK's certificate guaranteeing the authenticity of the software. All program data that are loaded bear the PRÜFTECHNIK certificate and the program will not start if one of the files has been manipulated. The software is executed only after the Run button is clicked. This consent request occurs only the first time the program is started and is locally saved in the cache.

Figure 3.1. Java security warning

Java security warning

The initial login dialog appears, in which you can determine the start mode.

Figure 3.2. Login dialog box

Login dialog box

There are two ways to continue the starting procedure

  1. None of the check boxes is selected

  2. The check box "Server is outside Proxy" is activated

Case 1 – no check box selected: the dialog box is expanded with the available databases. You can now select a database and immediately start OMNITREND Web by clicking "OK".

Case 2 – Server is outside proxy.

If the server is located behind a proxy, this option must be set, to allow a connection to the server. After this option is toggled, the list of databases is reloaded, in order to add the previously hidden databases.

Access to OMNITREND Web can be denied in the following cases:

  1. The user is already logged in (only with multi-use operation)

  2. All floating licenses are already in use (only with multi-use operation)

  3. The user has no license for OMNITREND Web

  4. The database is not compatible with OMNITREND Web

  5. The user does not exist or was incorrectly entered (cannot occur if program started via the OMNITREND Report menu)

  6. Invalid license

Error messages can occur in the following cases:

  1. Client has not started

  2. Server has not started

  3. Server not accessible (if it's running on another PC, or outside proxy)