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Cardbox |
Home Edition
The
Home Edition of Cardbox is designed for a single user who is also the owner
of the data. It keeps all the major features of Cardbox - the searching, the
editing, the image handling, the speed. It omits features that aren't needed
when you are managing your own data, and certain advanced features that are
needed only by sophisticated or professional users.
Database size is limited to 10,000 records per database, but there is no limit on the number of databases.
The Home Edition is packaged as a 300-page paperback book with colour illustrations (the content is identical to The Cardbox Book but the cover is different) with a CDROM in the back pocket.
The Home Edition list price is £54.99 including VAT. See price list.
Advanced features omitted from the Home Edition
- User profiles with passwords – to control who is allowed to open a database and who is allowed to do what with it.
- Validators – to check the data being entered and reformat, display warnings, and enter default values.
- Deduplication - to find duplicate entries in large mailing lists.
- Data encryption – to keep your database permanently encrypted even while it's being used.
- Macros – to automate common and repetitive tasks.
- Customisation of the user interface (keyboard shortcuts, menu, and toolbars) – to reduce the amount of time needed to train staff.
- Relational searching and linking.
- Object Linking and Embedding (OLE).
Upgrading to the Professional Edition
If you ever need to upgrade to the Professional Edition of Cardbox - for instance, if your business expands and you want more people to share the same data - you can upgrade on payment of the difference in price.
Comparison of features
| Professional Edition | Home Edition | Client Edition | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensing | Each copy is licensed for one computer only. | Freely installable, no licence required. | |
| On its own | Full read/write access. Can set up advanced features (user profiles, validators, etc) and use them. | Full read/write access up to 10,000 records; read-only access beyond that. Can use advanced features but not set them up. | Read-only access. |
| Connected to a network | Full read/write access: doesn't use up a licence on the server. | Read-only or read/write access, depending on server licensing: uses up one licence on the server. | |
| Customisation (keyboard, macros, etc) | Yes. | No; but can use customised features if they were set up by the Professional Edition. | |
- Read-only access means that you can open a database and view, search, browse, and print records but you cannot add, edit, or delete records; make changes to formats; or create a new database.
- Read/write access lets you do everything, including creating and modifying records, formats, and databases.
All three editions are able to open databases on a Cardbox server using encrypted links across a LAN, a WAN or the Internet. In this mode, they all have identical capabilities: full read/write access to these databases, access to all the advanced features such as user profiles, validators, and encryption, and a limit of 16,000,000 records per database.
Compatibility among the different editions
Any database created by one edition of Cardbox can be used by all the others. If the Professional Edition creates a database of more than 10,000 records, the Home Edition will still be able to open it, but only in a read-only mode. If the Professional Edition sets up validators or encryption or user profiles, the Home Edition will be able to use them but will not be able to change the way they are set up.