Opening a Database as Guest

A guest database can be opened to let you copy data between databases.

Choose Open | Open another database from the File menu. This displays the Open Another Database dialog.
Open a Standalone database:
- Click Browse. This displays a standard Windows File Open dialog.
- Choose the database file (with an ICMM extension) and then click Open.
Open a Workgroup database:
- Enter the Server name and port in the Workgroup data server section of the dialog.
- Click Connect.
- Select the required database using the Group and Database dropdown lists.
Click OK when finished.

The database tree of the guest database is displayed in an Explorer Window.

Select New Explorer window from the Window menu to display the database tree of the current database.

Items can now be copied between the guest database and current database. See the Copying Data Between Databases topic for details.

Note:

A database version older than v12.0 must be updated before it can be opened as guest.
An older version database that is newer than v12.0 may be opened read-only and items copied from the guest database to the current database without the need for updating. Prompts will be displayed as appropriate.