{"id":2627,"date":"2014-05-28T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T12:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/badgemaker.info\/?page_id=2627"},"modified":"2016-05-17T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:29:44","slug":"setting-badgemaker-connect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/badgemaker.info\/en\/userguide2\/add-ons\/badgemaker-connect-2\/setting-badgemaker-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up BadgeMaker Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>BadgeMaker Connect<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"small\">Setting up BadgeMaker Connect<\/h5>\n<p><strong>How to set up a BadgeMaker Connect Project<\/strong><br \/>\nFollow these steps if you want to create a project using an external data source as your primary source of information. If you want the local BadgeMaker Identity project to be your primary source of information, please refer to &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">How to set up data sources for existing projects<\/span>&#8221; chapter.<\/p>\n<p>We will start by creating a new project. Click the New Project icon and select<br \/>\n\u201c<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Create a new BM CONNECT project<\/span>\u201d from the dialog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/badgemaker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bmc_02.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3299\" alt=\"bmc_02\" src=\"https:\/\/badgemaker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bmc_02.png\" width=\"80%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/badgemaker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bmc_02.png 450w, https:\/\/badgemaker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bmc_02-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enter a name for your project and click \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Next<\/span>\u201d. BadgeMaker will now create the internal database structure to base your project upon. Click \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Next<\/span>\u201d once the process is complete. The third step in the process is the definition of data sources.<\/p>\n<p>Click \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Add data source<\/span>\u201d to create a new data source. By default, the data source will be set to a Microsoft SQL Server, which can be changed to an ODBC data source by selecting it from the \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Type<\/span>\u201d dropdown box.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BadgeMaker Connect Setting up BadgeMaker Connect How to set up a BadgeMaker Connect Project Follow these steps if you want to create a project using an external data source as your primary source of information. 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