### Main Menu Bar

At the top of the DataPage+ window is the main menu bar. It contain navigation elements as well as menus and icons to change database connection settings, import data, modify your user account profile, and access the help file.

Main Menu Bar

The menu bar contains these elements:

Toolbar Item | Description
| Clicking this image accesses the pcdmis.com web site. See http://www.pcdmis.com/.
| Similar to a web browser, these Back and Forward navigation icons move you back and forth within a history of opened screens and accessed items.
| The blue underlined Current User button displays the Edit User dialog box, allowing you to modify your personal profile. It contains the same form as used during the registration process. The Logout button logs out the current user and returns the window to the initial login screen. See "Registering and Logging In".
| The Current Selected Part button performs these tasks:

- It displays the category, name, and associated image of the currently selected part.

- It displays a drop-down of menu items allowing you to import a 3D CAD model or a CAD image, associating it with your part data when applied to the CAD tab and CAD-based reports:

Upload Solid and wireframe CAD Model - This uploads a combined solid and wireframe CAD model to your part. Supported file types include .cad or .iges.

Upload Solid CAD Model - This uploads a solid CAD model to your part. Supported file types include .cad, .iges, or .xamlsolid.

Upload Wireframe CAD Model - This uploads a wireframe CAD model to your part. Supported file types include .cad, .iges, or .xamlwireframe.

Upload CAD Image - This uploads a simple image file to your part. This allows you to supply some sort of drawing or picture to a part when you don't have an actual CAD model. While you can still rotate and zoom in and out on the image in the CAD tab, just as you would a CAD model, note that 3D rotation will not function in the same way as a CAD model, because you're working with a two-dimensional image. Supported file types include .jpg, .bmp, and .png.

Note: This button only appears if you've selected a part to work with from the side bar.

| Depending on what you currently have selected in DataPage+, the software will display one or more of these menu items. Once you activate a part, the Tools menu will contain more items: Import Data - This item accesses the DataPage+ Data Import Wizard. See "Importing Data".

Database connection

- This item displays the Database Connection Properties dialog box. See "Connecting to a Database".

Account

- Depending on your privileges, this item lets you work with user accounts on the system. See "Account Management".

View logs

- This displays logged data detailing many different operations taken by the various users in the data base. This menu item only appears if you have Administrator privileges. See "Viewing and Querying Administrator Logs".

View Selection

- This displays the View Selection dialog box which lets you choose what tabbed windows to display in the main view.
Simply mark the items to display and click Apply; also click Save if you want your configuration to remain when you return to DataPage+ in a later session.

Dimension Color

- This accesses the Dimension Color dialog box, allowing you to define colors for different tolerance zones. See "Understanding Feature Colors" for more information.

Options

- This item lets you set software options by displaying the Options dialog box. See the "Setting Software Options" topic for information.

Update

Updates the software with changes from the database either manually or automatically. See "Update" for more information.

Calculations

- This displays the Calculations dialog box.

This dialog box contains buttons that let you change the calculation styles that affect different chart types used in the Chart and CAD tabs. Changes made to this dialog box are immediately applied and stored in the database.

- Control Tests

- Capability Threshold

- Subgroup Parameters

- Control Charts

You can create and store multiple styles of calculations that can be used across different computers as long as you're connected to the same database.

To do this, click the New button and define a new style.

Any calculation settings you save are stored in the database to the current style selected in the Calculation Styles dialog box. To load a saved calculation style, select it from this list.

| The Help menu lets you access the DataPage+ help file as well as the About dialog box; this dialog lets you view information about the current version and any modules programmed.
| Minimize - This minimizes the window to the taskbar. Maximize - This maximizes the window to fill your monitor's screen dimensions. Normal - This reverts the maximized window back to its previous location. Close - This closes down the DataPage+ application, .logging you out of any database and terminating any database connections.

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