Database Desktop Shortcuts

If your office or lab is regularly working with multiple databases, you may like to create desktop shortcuts that directly navigate to each one.

To create a database desktop shortcut:

1. Create a desktop shortcut by right clicking and selecting Create Shortcut from the Multifocal.exe program in the C:/Multifocal folder

2. Move this new shortcut to the desktop and rename it  

3. Right click and choose Properties then find the Target: information 

4. Change Target: to the following  

C:\Multifocal\multifocal.exe “DATABASE:C:\MULTIFOCAL\DATABASES\***.FDB” 

Where *** is your database name in all caps 

If you would like to specify that the Hardware be turned off, then add “HARDWARE:OFF” as follows: 

C:\Multifocal\multifocal.exe “HARDWARE:OFF” “DATABASE:C:\MULTIFOCAL\DATABASES\***.FDB” 

Your desktop shortcut should not direct you to a specifically chosen database.