VarioData is the first multi-user flatfile database to offer a simple point and click interface to workgroup data management. VarioData is ideal for customer databases, departmental inventories and bug tracking, and provides an intuitive interface to building mixed-media workgroup databases.

Custom database designs are created with VarioBuilder, the VarioData database builder. No knowledge of programming is required to create database forms--simply drag and drop text, time, and currency fields, along with a variety of standard OpenStep interface elements onto a data canvas. All the familiar choices, from pop-up lists, buttons and check boxes, to file and image wells, are available for speeding data entry.

A point and click formula editor allows users to attach custom behavior to buttons, enabling databases to send electronic mail messages, print or fax reports, raise additional windows and panels, access system calls and scripts, and even pass information to mission critical applications. With the click of a button, your database design is turned into a network enabled, multi-user database, with sophisticated record locking to prevent users from unwittingly writing over vital information.

VarioData includes powerful Import/Export features, including access to Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, and a variety of other standard merge formats.

Multi-User Capable

• Full multi-user database access with record locking
• Database can create audit and revision trails by automatically recording identity of user making changes
• Each user can maintain individual preferences for configuration of sort and entry order, display, and other elements

• ASCII Text and Rich Text Format (rtf) fields
• Numeric fields with display precision and currency formats
• Date and time fields with configurable formatting
• Automatic field values include:
  • Creator
  • Creation date
  • Modifier
• Date last modified
• Serial numbers or other automatic numbers specified by powerful function language
• Attachments field allows storage of references to other documents and applications (such as PO's, faxes, background information)
• Keyword index fields
• Check boxes
• Configurable pop-up lists
• Sound and image placeholders

• Drag-and-drop palettes simplify database design and forms creation
• Powerful function language features comprehensive mathematical, logical, and database functions
• SQL back-end provides scalability of database applications to:
  • Oracle
  • Sybase
  • Interbase
  • Informix
• Support provided for creation of front-ends to existing SQL tables
• Graphical attachments allow customization of database appearance, and use of existing forms as backgrounds
• Layout features include layering, groups, alignment, grids, and more

• WYSIWYG report editor supports point and click creation of professionally-formatted reports and merged letters
• Create and save custom tabular reports
• Automatic label features support a wide variety of standard label formats
• Report-specific functions let you incorporate important calculated or summary information in reports

• User-configurable import and export filters
• Merge records/data on import
• Support for common cross-platform data formats such as spreadsheet text, dBase export, FileMaker merge, FrameMaker .mif, and numerous others.

• Password protection of user access to database, with a login panel available at the database designer's option
• Customizable user groups let you configure access priveleges for each database on an element-by-element basis
• Password protection of import, export, printing, and function execution
• Password protection of interface editing and changes