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Knowledge Base 
Using Master Edition on a Network The Shelf Logic Master Edition program is networkable, letting multiple users share plans and databases. The Master Edition program itself must be installed onto the local C: drive but the plan files and databases can reside on network shared drives. Step 1. Setting up your Database You will need to have your database on a shared drive. Databases have an extension of “.MDB”. You can either copy an existing database onto a shared drive or create a new database on the shared drive. To create a new database on a shared drive, open Master Edition and from the “File” menu, select “New Database”. You can then enter the name and location of your new database. Make sure you create it on a shared drive. Before creating a plan using this new database, make sure it is the ‘active’ database, You can do this by using the “File” menu and selecting “Open Database”. Then enter the name and location of the database and your new plan will be created using this database. Step 2. Setting the Default Database Assuming you are going to use this shared database most of the time, it should be made the default database so that when Master Edition first starts, this default database is the one used. You want to make your shared network database as the default so it is used when the program starts. From the “View” menu, select “Preferences”. Then click on the middle “database” tab and you will see where the default database name goes. You need to enter the full path and database name. You can click the Browse button to search for your database if you want. Then click OK and this becomes the new default database. The next time Master Edition starts, this database will be used. You won’t need to use the “File-Open Database” menu command since your desired database is already in use. Step 3. Shared Plan Files In order to share plan files, you only have to save the plan onto a shared drive. It will then be available to other users of the shared drive. When you open a plan file, it opens the database from which it was created. If the plan file used a network database, that database will be opened for use. Transferring Existing Plans to Network Drives If you move your database to a network drive and there were plans created before the move, these plans need to be modified.
Let’s look at an example: You have a database called “Item.MDB” in the “C:\program files\Shelf Logic Master Edition\datafile” folder and you create a plan in the same folder called “Market1” using this database. Then you move the database to a network drive, to the “F:\Projects\Planograms\” folder. When you open the “Market1” plan, it will try to use the database in the old “C:\program files….” folder. In order for your plan to use the new database, you must do the following: 1. Open up the “.PNM” extension of the plan using Windows Notepad. In our example it would be named “Market1.PNM”. You cannot use WordPad or a word processor, only Notepad or an ASCII text editor.2. When this PNM file is viewed in Notepad, there are many lines with a piece of information about the plan on each line. About 20 or so lines down, you will see the path name and file name of the databasew that this plan uses. It’s not hard to find, since most lines have a number of a TRUE or FALSE, this line stands out. In our example, this line would read:"C:\Program Files\Shelf Logic Master Edition\datafile\item.mdb" It tells Shelf Logic where the database for this plan resides. 3. Change this line to the path and name of the database on the network drive. For our example, we moved the database to the “F:\Projects\Planograms\” folder but kept the “Item.MDB” database name the same. So this line needs to be changed to:“F:\Projects\Planograms\Item.mdb” Keep the quotes before after the database path and name. 4. Save the PNM file. The next time this plan is opened, the database in the new location on the network drive will be used.You need to do this for each plan file that uses the moved database.
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