Adding Objects to Intellect.dbi

Objects are added to intellect.dbi as follows:

Go to Intellect's root folder and open the intellect.dbi file with a text editor.

Add the objects to intellect.dbi. For each object, you must supply its name (used for identification) in brackets and then declare its fields. Below is the field declaration syntax:
<Field name>, <Type> [, <Size>]

Note.

The Size may be set for fields of the CHAR type only.

The table below shows the fields mandatory for all objects in Intellect.

Field	Description
id	Unique object ID
name	Object name
parent_id	Parent object ID
flags	Parameter for internal system use

Attention!

The flags field may not be used by external applications.

The following table describes the allowed data types.

Data type	Description
BIT	Used for creating a flag field that takes a logical value, Yes or No.
CHAR	Used for fields that contain short character sequences.
DATETIME	Used for fields that contain dates and times. The date format is YYYY-MM-DD and the time format is HH:MM:SS.XXX.
DOUBLE	Used for fields that contain floating-point numbers.
INTEGER	Used for fields that contain integer numbers.
TEXT	Used for fields that contain text strings.

Beside the mandatory fields, the objects of the DEMO module contain the following fields:

port – COM port address;
address – device address.

Figure below shows sample object additions and field declarations in intellect.dbi.

Save the changes to the intellect.dbi file.
Go to Intellect's root folder and run the idb.exe utility.
In the Select data source list, select Basic data (1).
Click the Update database button (2).
The system will start updating the database structure. The progress will be shown in the Protocol window of idb.exe.
Click OK to close idb.exe.

As a result of the database structure update, tables are created in Intellect's configuration database.

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Documentation for Intellect 4.11.0-4.11.3. Documentation for other versions of Intellect is available too.