Configure the ABRA Interface

Before you can use the ABRA import or export utility, you must configure the ABRA server to work with Vision.

Prerequisites: If the ABRA and Vision servers are the same domain, you need to complete some steps before you complete this procedure. See Create a Domain User Account and Set the COM+ Identity.

To configure the ABRA interface, complete the following steps:

  1. If you are running a Novell network and the servers are members of a workgroup, create a local user on the ABRA server with the same name and password of the user that is the COM+ Identity on the Vision Web/Application server.  
  2. Log on to the ABRA server.
  3. Share the ABRA data folder on the server.
  4. In Share Permissions, set the user account running the Vision COM+ Application (for example, Identity) to have Full Control access to the share.  
  5. Remove the Everyone group from the list of groups with permissions to the folder.
  6. Create an ODBC System DSN on the Vision Web/Application Server, using the following steps (these steps are for FoxPro; select the appropriate options for SQL if that is the version of ABRA that you are using):  

    1. Click Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC).

    2. Click the System DSN tab.

    3. Click Add and select Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver from the list. (For the SQL version, select SQL Server from the list and then select the ABRA database).

    4. Click Finish. The ODBC Visual FoxPro Setup dialog box opens.

    5. In the Data Source Name field, enter VisionABRA.

    6. Select the Free Table directory option.

    7. In the Path field, enter the UNC path; for example, \\<abraserver>\<sharename>.

    8. Click OK.