The Server Dialog

The first time you run Rekall you will get an empty window. Click the New Database tool (or select File/New Database from the menu). This will show a database connection wizard, which will prompt you for the information needed to connect to a database. Generally, you can follow through the wizard, but there are times when you need to provide information that the wizard does not prompt for. In these cases you will need to set up the connection manually. This is described below. It is probably worth a glance even if you do use the wizard, since various features of the way that Rekall connects to a database are covered.

To set up a connection manually, click the Finish button on the first page of the dialog. This takes you to the manual setup, which first prompts you to select a directory and a file name, just as you would do for a new work processing or spreadsheet document; this gives the location and name of the database file. The one difference is that you should probably create a new directory and locate the database file there - why you want to do this is explained a bit further on.

If you create a database file called Orders, then a dialog will appear in the window, as illustrated in the screenshot below. The entries down the left-hand side correspond to the various components of Rekall; tables, forms, etc. The entry, Servers displays the information about server databases, which is what is stored in the database file.