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Add Database to Session

File → Manage Databases → Database Management → Add            Shared Dialog Box
Within a session, adds Databases to search, providing a method of interactively registering a new or existing database from your file system. This functionality provides an alternative method to hand-editing either the shared or your private acar.cfg file. After the database has been added to your current session, you will be able to access assemblies, subsystems, templates, and property files from that database.
 
For the option:
Do the following:
Database Alias
Enter the name by which the database will be referenced during the session. This name may be related or not similar to the actual file system path where it is located.
Database Path
Enter the complete file system path for the new database. You can do either of the following:
■Enter the path directly into the text box. For example, if the path for the prototype database is located at /usr/people/gabriel/prototype_02.cdb, you enter: /usr/people/gabriel/prototype_02.cdb
■Select and then select the desired directory.
■Enter the path to a new database, such as c:\temp\experiment.cdb. In this case, your template-based product creates a new empty database.
Update Private Config File
Select to also update the Default Writable Database in the Private Config File (.cfg)
Note: If the Private Config File (.cfg) is not updated with the session database configuration, external processes like interactive and background Adams Solver analyses will not be able to resolve alias paths to files stored in those databases, e.g. tire property or modal neutral files referenced in the Adams Dataset (.adm).
Database Info
Select to display a list of the search directories, including their search level, database name, and database path.