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Removing a Keynote Database
Use this procedure to remove a database from the list of available keynote databases.
1 On the Format menu, select Options.
2 In the Options dialog box, click the AEC Content tab.
3 On the AEC Content page, click the Add/Remove button for Keynote Databases.
4 In the Add/Remove Keynote Databases dialog box, select the database you want to remove from the list,
and click Remove.
5 Click OK twice. Note that if you remove the top database in the list, the next database listed becomes the
default selection in the Select Keynote dialog box.
Merging Old and New Keynote Databases
If you have modified one of the default keynote databases supplied with a previous release of AutoCAD Architecture,
and you want to migrate your modifications to the corresponding database in the current release, you can do so using
the Detail Component/Keynote Database Migration utility. For detailed instructions, see “
Migrating Detail Component
and Keynote Databases ” on page 2173.
IMPORTANT Beginning with AutoCAD Architecture 2008, the US detail component and keynote databases supplied with
the software use the CSI MasterFormat 2004 standard. Using the Detail Component/Keynote Database Migration utility to
migrate your customizations from a database that uses the CSI MasterFormat 95 standard (as in Autodesk Architectural Desktop
2007 and previous releases) is not supported. The utility will not properly migrate custom records from the older database
and may errantly overwrite records in the new database with MasterFormat 95 data. If you want to use a MasterFormat 95
database with the current release of AutoCAD Architecture, you can load it as described under
“ Adding a Detail Component
Database to Available Databases ” on page 1948 or “ Adding a Keynote Database ” on page 1973 . Note that the older database
must be located with the previous release content and must maintain that content folder structure to function properly. An
older detail component database will not function with 2008 US details content. Likewise, an older keynote database will not
automatically keynote 2008 US details content; it will only keynote detail components inserted using previous version details
or details in previous version drawings. The Detail Component/Keynote Database Migration utility can still be used to migrate
records from one CSI MasterFormat 95 database to another.
Setting Keynote Database Permissions in a Multi-User Environment
If you are working in a multi-user network environment with keynote and detail content on a remote server, you may
want to allow some users to edit databases and others to have read-only access. For this to work properly, all users must
have write permission to the folder where the databases are installed. Without write permission to the folder, a user
will not be able to open any database within the folder, because the necessary lock file cannot be generated on that
user’s behalf, regardless of whether the user has write permission to the database itself. Once all users have write
permission to the folder, permissions for individual databases (*.mdb files) can then be set on a per-user basis. Note,
however, that this arrangement allows users to access and edit other content within the folder, such as drawing, image,
and XML recipe files, unless you set permissions on these files individually to prevent it. For this reason, you may want
to keep the folders containing keynote and detail content separate from other content installed with AutoCAD
Architecture so that write permission is not available to all users for all content.
Creating and Modifying Keynote Databases
You can create and modify keynote databases using Microsoft
®
Access directly if you are familiar with that product
and with the structure of keynote databases in AutoCAD Architecture (for more information, see “ Keynote Database
1974 | Chapter 44 Annotation and Keynoting Tools