General Settings

Basic settings for using iBase, for example, how you use categories. These settings do not affect any other user.

Default Category Name

Choose the default category that you want to use when you save a new folder object (such as a set). By default, you use the folder name General if you leave this blank.

Prompt for Category when Saving Folder Objects

If turned on, a prompt for a category and access type is displayed when you save a new folder object (such as a set).

If turned off, you automatically save folder objects in the default category with the default access type wherever possible. However, you are always prompted for a category if you belong to more than one folder object control group.

For more information, see Working with categories.

Default to 'Public' access

Determines whether access to a folder object is public, private to the user who flagged it as private, or restricted to members of a folder object control group. Private folder objects are only listed and viewed by the user who flagged it as private and the system administrator.

For more information, see Working with categories.

Maximum number of most recently opened databases to show in the file menu

The Most Recently Used list is the list of databases at the end of the options on the File menu.

Each time a new database is opened, an entry for it is placed in the list. Selecting the entry is a quick means of reopening the database.

This setting determines the maximum number of entries there can be in the list. When this number is reached, new entries at the top push the bottom entries off the list.

Number of rows to be displayed in a multi-line text box

This determines the size of the box when entering or editing data in multi-line text type fields, in terms of the number of lines it can display.

Open last used database on start-up

Turn this on to quickly reopen the database you opened last, whenever you start iBase (not iBase Designer).

Check for matching records whenever a discriminator field value changes (datasheets only)

This only applies to datasheets and displays a warning about potential duplicate records when you enter data in a discriminator field which results in a match with one or more existing records.

This allows you to check your data at an earlier stage than the Prompt to confirm creation of matching records option which only warns you when you attempt to save the record.

Prompt to confirm creation of matching records

You are always warned when you attempt to save a record that will create a potential duplicate. However, you can display an additional prompt that appears when you click Yes to create the record.

Remember user for Windows single sign-on

Users can use their Windows credentials to automatically log on to iBase if their Windows credentials match an iBase account for either their Windows user name or the name of a Windows group to which they belong. However, a user cannot log on automatically if they belong to two or more Windows groups and there is an iBase user account for each group. In this situation, the user is prompted to select the user to log on as, and there is a Remember my selection option in the Logon dialog so that users do not need to repeat the selection each time.

To reset this option, users turn off the Remember user for Windows single sign-on checkbox. The option is only available when logged on to a security file.

Display dialogs in tabs

Choose whether new dialogs appear as tabbed or independent windows. By default, dialogs appear as tabbed windows.

Use legacy icons

Change the appearance of the entity icons to display earlier icon set. By default, the latest icon set is used

Activate global shortcut keys

Choose whether to use and potentially customize global shortcut keys. By default, global shortcut keys are activated.