Connecting with a Designer database

When you start the program, the Connect to Infor EPM Designer dialog opens. Here, you administer database registrations and connect to a repository.

Note: You must log on as a user with the Administer Repository permission on the farm level and Administer Permissions on the application level.

To connect with a Designer database:

  1. Select the Designer database to work with the Database drop-down list.
  2. Select the authentication system from the Authentication drop-down list.
    Note: When you use a Designer database for the first time, it has no connection to a farm repository.
  3. Specify the user name and password.
  4. Click OK.
Note: When you connect with a Designer database, the database is locked by Designer. The database can only be edited by Designer. If you try to edit the database in EPM Administration, you may receive this error message: 
The database can only be modeled by Infor EPM Designer.
To unlock the database, recreate the OLAP database with Designer and close Designer.
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