Database Connection Options

Desktop Designer offers two ways for connecting an object to a database. The diagram below shows the two available options.

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  1. Step-by-step Database Wizard offers a guided process for:

    • connecting a database to a label or form object

    • adding a database to the labeling solution's data sources

    The process of establishing and configuring a wizard based database connection is described here.

    Product level info

    This segment is applicable to Desktop Designer Pro and PowerForms.

  2. Manually established and configured database connection.

Note

This option is intended for advanced users. It allows detailed configuration and offers all of the available database connection settings.

The process of establishing and configuring a database connection manually is described here.