Using the ADW Encyclopedia

Since all material in ADW is stored in an encyclopedia, it becomes necessary to manage the encyclopedia carefully when working with ADW. The encyclopedia contains material relating to diagrams, designs, reports, and a host of material related to the project in a set of 4 files with an extension of .ENC.

Setting up the Encyclopedia

For this version of the course, the encyclopedia will reside in a project titled ADW Project, which resides in a the subdirectory \ADW on drive A:. In order to ensure that the files will be available when you start ADW, the following script must be executed. Note that this is a one-time action only.


A:
MD \ADW
CD \ADW
COPY G:\DLN436\ADW\*.*
CD \
C:

You should now be able to use ADW for your project.

In the interests of portability, you should use the ADW Project only. Creating another encyclopedia, either on drive A: or C:, would restrict you to working at that particular workstation only.

Opening the Encyclopedia

An ADW encyclopedia can be opened from any of the three ADW workstations, i.e. Planning, Analysis, or Design. To open the ADW Project encyclopedia, simply double click on the Encyclopedia Services icon. Button

Make sure that the disk with your encyclopedia is in A: before doing this.

ADW will then require you to sign in, using a screen similar to the one below. You should sign in as newuser. There is no password, and you can click on "Sign-On" or merely press the "Enter" key.

Sign-on Screen

At this point, ADW will present you with a list of available encyclopedias, one of which should be ADW Project. The screen will look somewhat like this.

Available Encyclopedias

Simply double click on the encyclopedia marked ADW Project. Alternatively, you can highlight it and open it using the "File" option. ADW will go through loading and restoring the encyclopedia, flashing a message "Open in progress", and finally marking the encyclopedia as "Open".

At this point, you need to reduce the size of this window, to avoid some clutter on the desktop. Do not use the minimize icon, as this will freeze the workstation. Simply grab the bottom left corner and drag it to the opposite corner, until the window is of the size of a postage stamp.

All the tools in ADW are now available for use.

Important: At no point during the ADW session should you remove the diskette containing the encyclopedia from drive A:, since ADW is constantly reading and writing to these files.

Shutting down the Encyclopedia

An open encyclopedia can be closed at any time, via the "File" menu. However, since you will be working with only one project in this course, it may be desirable to shut down the encyclopedia just before leaving OS/2. This is achieved by simply double clicking on the Encyclopedia Services folder icon. ADW will query if that is what you indeed intend to do, using a screen similar to the one below.

Exit Screen

Simply respond "yes", and all open tools and encyclopedias are shut down.

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