The dbn.par file

The file dbn.par is one of the typical CDS/Isis configuration files, which indicates the whereabouts or locality of the parts of a database.

In the current version of ABCD this file specifies:

  1. the path to the folder where the database itself resides
  2. the path to the format which produces the prologue of the page for the update of a record
  3. the path to the format which produces the epilogue of the page for the update of a record

E.g.:

biblo.*=%path_database%biblo/data/biblo.*
prologoact.pft=%path_database%www/prologoact.pft
epilogoact.pft=%path_database%www/epilogoact.pft

The print formats are not included in this file since ABCD creates the path directly based on the configuration parameters.

The name  %path_database% in the file .par is substituted for the real path in the main configuration file config.php. This allows moving the directory bases without impact on the directories of the database parts.

If for some reason the database files need to be put outside the base folder, specify the absolute (not relative) paths in the file dbn.par

If a format is referencing another one or REF is used to relate to another database, both the referred databases and the referring databases need to be included in the related dbn.par