When you first start the TIMS3 Data Manager, you will see a menu that provides access to various functions and to the various sections of the document database. In fact, when we speak of the "document database", this is a universal or generalized view of the information that is recorded in the database. The TIMS3 database consists of the following groups of information or tables, using database terminology:
Projects
Documents
Document Sets
Document Revisions
Contacts
Companies
File Transfer Status
File Transfer Audit
and various other system tables required for general database and user management purposes.
If your TIMS3 Client software has been installed for a regular user of the system, the menu will provide a basic set of options. It will provide you access to project, document and company/contact information. It will allow you to execute various file transfer functions and to generate reports.
The last project that you worked in will be displayed as the default project in this menu. You have the opportunity to select a new project by keying in another project name in this field or selecting it from the list of available projects by clicking on the expand icon alongside the project name field. The icon to the right provides a tree listing of the project with their respective sub-projects.
If your access privileges have been defined to be a TIMS3 Manager or Administrator, some additional options are presented that are not normally available to the general user. These options allow you to
Access the security options
Perform certain database maintenance functions
