Changing the Primary Location

A constructor database can only be modified by users at its primary location. The user can administer a System database for another location from your own location, provided that the database is primary at your administering location. If this is not the case, the user needs to change the database’s primary location to your own location before it can be administered. The user must be at the Hub in order to change the primary location.

1. To make a database primary at a location, from the Hub, select Databases from the Elements option on the Admin Elements window.

2. Click Modify Location. The Create/Modify Database window is displayed.

3. Click the gadget at the left of the Primary Loc. text box, to display the Primary Location window.

   

   This window lists all the initialized locations defined in the project.

4. Select the new primary location from the Project Locations list.

   It is possible to schedule the change of primary location for a given time. This operation will update the Global database without waiting for the next Update event, but it still may not take place immediately. The primary location cannot be changed until all users at the old primary location exit their sessions or change to an Multiple Database (MDB) that does not include the database.

   Note:
   If there are ANY users in the MDB any changes to the primary location of the systems database whatever MDB is been used is blocked. This is particularly relevant to an ADMIN user with the MDB set, a FREE user in ADMIN also blocks any changes to the primary location.