The File Menu

The File Menu provides access to the following EMarketOffer features:

• Data Sources
• Map Settings
• Save All Settings
• Open EMO Data Directory
• Exit

The Data Sources Option

Please read in conjunction with the section on Connecting to a Database Server.

Data Source Concepts

Input data can be sourced from file (see Data Files), or from online database servers.

The Database Connection Configuration

EMarketOffer supports multiple connections to multiple database servers. Database connectivity is managed through the Database Connection Configuration (DCC). A DCC contains a number of queries which obtain data from one or more databases. While a DCC's queries can access data in more than one database on more than one database server, it is not possible to have more than one query handling data of the same type (e.g. only one query can return Price data, and only one query can return Demand data). To overcome this limitation it is possible to define multiple DCCs. Each configuration will define a different, but complete set of data access queries. EMarketOffer can use only one DCC at a time, which together with the data files loaded from the Inputs files directory, fully determine EMarketOffer's run-time data environment.