Connecting to an existing database

Instead of creating a new database, the administrator may need to connect to an existing database (e.g. if the connection settings have been changed).

Note: For databases created in earlier versions of ABBYY FlexiCapture, see Upgrading databases and projects created in an earlier version of the program.

Important!

  • In ABBYY FlexiCapture Release 4 Update 2, PostgreSQL is enabled by default. To be able to work with PostgreSQL databases in earlier versions of ABBYY FlexiCapture, you will need to enable PostgreSQL first.
  • In the case of a PostgreSQL database, the fc schema and all its objects must be owned by the user account that the Application Server uses to work with the database.  

To connect to an existing database, complete the following steps:

  1. On the computer where the Application Server is installed, open the Administration and Monitoring Console and click Settings → Application Server to open the page https://<ApplicationServer>/FlexiCapture12/Monitoring/#Settings/DbConn (where <ApplicationServer> is the name of the computer on which the Application Server is installed) under the Windows administrator account.
    If the Application Server is already connected to a database, start at step 4.
  2. Click Connect to Existing Database.
  3. In the form that opens, complete the following fields: the name of the Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Azure or PostgreSQL instance, the name of the existing database (for Oracle, Azure or PostgreSQL), the user that administers the database server, and the path to the file storage (if any).
  4. Use the Test Connection button to check the entered values. If the test is successful, click OK.
  5. Now your server is connected to the database. If an Upgrade link is displayed on the  Settings → Application Server page next to the database version, then you should upgrade the database before you proceed.
  6. If ABBYY FlexiCapture authentication has never been used for this database,  to the user under whose account the Administration and Monitoring Console is running will be issued the temporary password password.

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