1. The installation puts two icons on the desktop – One for Sesame and a second one for Sdesigner. The Sesame icon will access your databases. Sdesigner is for designing screen layouts, programming applications and designing reports.

Sesame and Sdesigner icons. To open and use Sesame, double-click on the Sesame icon. The Sesame Database Manager will open displaying the opening screen and menu bar. File, Edit, Macro, View, Help and Quick Start Menu.

2. To open a database, select File then Open Application from the Sesame menu bar at the top of the window or click on the Open Button.

3. With the default installation, a file dialogue will appear showing the data folder - which is initially empty - and the Samples folder beneath it. Click on the Samples folder to display the Sesame sample applications. Each seperate application ends with the extension .db

4. Click on an application to open it in the Sesame program. When the application opens, you will see the Sesame menu tree system from which you can select whether you want to add records or search existing records.

The menu tree presents your choices in a structured, set of hierarchal branches. The application name "Sample Customers Application" is at the top. The next level shows the Forms in the application. Then come the modes Add or Search/Update. Under each of these, the tree displays the name of the database "Customers" and then the name of the form in the database.

5. To Search a database (Customers.db), click on the name of the form (Main Form) under the Search/Update branch of the menu. The form will open in Search mode (where you specify what records you want to see) with a new menu tree displaying search options. To see all of the records, press F10. To select a specific set of record (e.g. all people whose last name is Jones), type the restriction directly in the element on the form and press F10.

Once your records are displayed in Update mode, F10 will save the record & move forward to the next one, F9 saves & moves back a record, Shift-F6 opens the records in table view, F6 expands any field on the record, F7 returns to search mode, F3 deletes a record, Shift-F10 saves the record and returns to the application menu.

6. new records, click on the name of the database form under the Add Data branch of the menu. You will be put in a new form. Enter your data in the applicable element and press F10 to save and add another or Shift-F10 to save your record and go back to the application menu.