http://dabbledb.com/help/index/ 2008-11-29T15:04:51-08:00 http://dabbledb.com/help/index/ http://dabbledb.com/help/index/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-11-28T12:22:01-08:00 natasha http://dabbledb.com/help/index/affiliate_program?rev=1227903721&do=diff Dabble DB’s reseller program rewards you each time you refer Dabble to your friends, clients, family members, and even the random people you meet on the bus. Once your referral has signed up for a paid account, just send us an email with their database name so that we can verify it. The new customer must pay for their Dabble account, not the person making the referral. text/html 2008-11-28T11:13:00-08:00 luke http://dabbledb.com/help/index/ssl_encryption?rev=1227899580&do=diff SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption is a security feature available on all paid Account plans. (It is not available on the Commons plan.) When you use SSL, data sent over the Internet is encrypted before transit, ensuring that, if it is intercepted, no one can read the data. text/html 2008-10-29T10:17:23-08:00 luke_smallthought.com http://dabbledb.com/help/index/gst?rev=1225300643&do=diff Smallthought Systems, the parent company of Dabble DB, is based in Canada. By law we charge federal Goods and Services Tax (GST) to all Canadian customers (currently 5%). Our GST number is 854568771. text/html 2008-10-24T13:43:03-08:00 luke_smallthought.com http://dabbledb.com/help/index/backup?rev=1224880983&do=diff Dabble DB includes two primary backup tools. The first is a containing all of the data. The second is the ability to from the last 30 days. Both are accessible from the Backup and history tab of the admin page, accessible to Admin users. Backup ZIP file The administrator of a Database can download a ZIP file containing all of the data stored in the database. text/html 2008-10-24T12:40:53-08:00 luke_smallthought.com http://dabbledb.com/help/index/access_restrictions?rev=1224877253&do=diff Access restrictions allow for the ability limit access to the database to certain computers. Filtering works by IP address. There is an extra charge for this service. For details, see pricing. Admin users can request this service from the account info screen. text/html 2008-10-24T12:39:14-08:00 luke_smallthought.com http://dabbledb.com/help/index/custom_domain?rev=1224877154&do=diff Normally, a database is accessible from a URL such as yourcompany.dabbledb.com. If you have your own domain name, e.g. www.yourcompany.com it’s possible to hook up your database to this URL. This also removes references to Dabble DB throughout the database. text/html 2008-10-24T09:39:21-08:00 luke_smallthought.com http://dabbledb.com/help/index/account_plans?rev=1224866361&do=diff When you open a Dabble DB account, you choose a monthly plan which determines certain parameters of your Database. The parameters include: * How many separate users can access your database * The amount of storage for Attachments * Whether your data is private or public * Custom domain * Access restrictions text/html 2008-10-24T08:07:28-08:00 luke_smallthought.com http://dabbledb.com/help/index/users?rev=1224860848&do=diff Dabble is designed to be a collaborative system. Unless you are paying for a single user account plan, your applications and data can be shared among users. It is up to the administrator of a Database to invite other users to use a particular application. Your database can support as many users as is permitted by your account plan. text/html 2008-10-24T07:53:32-08:00 luke_smallthought.com http://dabbledb.com/help/index/default_value?rev=1224860012&do=diff When configuring a field, for most types of Field values, you can specify a default value. This value will be given to new Entries automatically. It will not apply to any entries that existed before you set the default. You can use the default value in combination with Autoincrement feature to specify a default value that increases numerically for each new entry. text/html 2008-10-24T07:51:08-08:00 luke_smallthought.com http://dabbledb.com/help/index/autoincrement?rev=1224859868&do=diff The autoincrement checkbox in Field configuration allows you to specify that a field's Default value for new entries should increase numerically for each new entry. Each new entry will therefore have a unique field value. [Autoincrement checkbox] text/html 2008-10-24T07:28:05-08:00 luke_smallthought.com http://dabbledb.com/help/index/text_values?rev=1224858485&do=diff Text values are the simplest type of field values and new fields in Dabble default to this type. A text field contains a piece of text. The text can consist of letters, numbers, words or phrases -- there is no restriction on what a user types into the field. This makes them very flexible, but not very powerful. If you know that your data is something specific, like an email address, a number, a date or a geographical location, you should use one of the other types of field values.