DataEase 7.2

DataEase is an easy to use database that enables you to create powerful applications to store, retrieve and manipulate information. With a wide range of features and functionality DataEase caters for both first-time database users and professional application developers alike.

Features:

- Ease of use

- Straightforward design
Simply drag and drop objects to design your application. Use style sheets to apply customised fonts and colours. At any time, click on a button to switch between user and designer views to test your work.

- Simple business rules
Easily create rules that validate and process your input information as it is typed. Cut down introducing bad data in your application.

- Fully relational
DataEase lets you easily define relationships that link the data tables in an application. These can be created “on the fly” and you can display nested tables – ‘subforms’ – within your main form, making the display of related information easily accessible to users.

- Reporting
Users can search through the data and produce their own reports without any programming knowledge. DataEase gives you several different levels of searching and reporting: Query by Form at form/data-entry level, for form searches, Query by Model, allowing you to write sophisticated multi-table reports with a few mouse clicks, and DataEase Query Language (DQL), an easy to learn English-like query language that allows complex reports and data processing procedures to be created using a simple set oriented method. No knowledge of SQL or programming languages is required.

- Multi-user system
Your application can be reliably networked with many users, with real automatic network locking. Global options can be set to control the extent of locking. Refresh data on screen, instantly, automatically.

- Extra power
Use one of the available 250 plus Custom Defined Functions (CDF’s) written especially for DataEase, or integrate general purpose Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL’s) to extend DataEase’s functionality even further or you can create your own.

- Visual and Data Control
You can manipulate both the display of objects on your form and your data by attaching powerful scripts to buttons, fields or any other screen objects. Create audit trails of data input or change the colour and placement of fields conditionally by attaching a script to objects.

- Object Manipulation Language
OML – Attach scripts to the objects that appear on your DataEase form. All visual elements you use on Forms or other documents consist of Objects accessible from other documents in your application.

- Power where it’s needed
As a developer you can give users as much or as little power as required by allowing access to your entire application or parts of it, ad-hoc reporting, and general maintenance functions. You can use views and filters to create alternative views on a form to present selected information in different ways.