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Cardbox |
Professional Edition
The Professional Edition is the flagship version of Cardbox. It has all the power and all the features.
Manuals
Cardbox has world-beating online help, but for really getting under the skin of a program there is no substitute for a printed book. The Professional Edition has two:
- The Cardbox Book (300 pages in colour) - takes you through Cardbox from the beginning, explaining every feature, why it is there, what it is for, and how to use it. A spacious layout and clear illustrations make this the ideal way to learn Cardbox, and a special 32-page Inspiration section gives you ideas by showing you what other people have achieved with Cardbox. You can read more about the book here.
- Cardbox: Macros and Programming (160 pages) - starts with the simple automation of repetitive operations and builds up to scripts that can automate not just Cardbox but the rest of Windows. A complete list of the objects, methods and properties in the Cardbox programming manual completes this indispensable reference work.
Multi-user Professional Edition configurations for sharing databases across a network come with a third book, The Cardbox Server Book (64 pages), explaining how to set up and configure the Cardbox Server.
Pricing of the Professional Edition starts at £299.00 plus VAT for a single-user copy. Discounts are available for upgrades from earlier versions of Cardbox for Windows. See price list.
Comparison of features
| Professional Edition | Home 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. |
| 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.