{"id":2355,"date":"2014-12-18T21:15:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2014-12-18T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:15:12","slug":"using-impromptu-with-odbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/using-impromptu-with-odbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Impromptu with ODBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subheadsbig\">\n<p class=\"subheads\">Getting Started<\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a New Catalog, enter a file name and select Databases:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2356\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_j01.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_j01\" width=\"344\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"2\">Select Add:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2357\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_j02.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_j02\" width=\"291\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"3\">Enter a name for the database, select ODBC Gateway, find and select the ODBC <span style=\"color: #990000;\">data source<\/span> you created earlier,deselect User ID, and click OK:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2358\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cognos3.gif\" alt=\"cognos3\" width=\"407\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"4\">The Database Name should now be correct. Click OK:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2359\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_j04.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_j04\" width=\"344\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"5\">Select and add a table, then click OK:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2360\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_j06.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_j06\" width=\"380\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"6\">\u00a0Select Cancel from the Joins dialog box:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2362\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_j07.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_j07\" width=\"380\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"7\">Select New on the Toolbar to start the Report Wizard and click Next:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2361\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_j08.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_j08\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"8\">\u00a0Double click the table name, select and add the fields, click Finish:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2363\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_j09.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_j09\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"9\">\u00a0Data from the dataset will appear:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2364\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ODBC_j10.gif\" alt=\"ODBC_j10\" width=\"380\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting Started Create a New Catalog, enter a file name and select Databases: Select Add: Enter a name for the database, select ODBC Gateway, find and select the ODBC data source you created earlier,deselect User ID, and click OK: The Database Name should now be correct. Click OK: Select and add a table, then click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}