Creating and Editing Region Files

By using regions, you can reduce the number of POPs that Connection Manager displays per country, giving the user a more refined list of POPs to choose from.

Connection Manager requires a phone book file and region file pair. If you do not create a region file, an empty one is created at the same time a phone book is published. The file has the same name as the phone book file and has a .pbr extension. It is located in the phone book directory.

To add a region

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, point to Internet Connection Services for RAS, and then click Phone Book Administrator.
   
   
2. On the Tools menu, click Regions Editor. The Regions Editor dialog box appears.
   
   
3. Click Add, and then type the region name. The region is then added to the phone book.
   
   
4. Click OK.

To edit a region

1. Click the phone book in the Phone books list.
   
   
2. On the Tools menu, click Regions Editor. The Regions Editor dialog box appears.
   
   
3. Click the region you want to edit, and then click Edit.
   
   
4. Type the change, and then click OK to save the region.

Phone Book Administrator includes a model region file. See "Sample Region File," in the Connection Point Services Reference Guide.

To import region files

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, point to Internet Connection Services for RAS, and then click Phone Book Administrator.
   
   
2. Click the phone book in the Phone books list.
   
   
3. On the Tools menu, click Regions Editor. The Regions Editor dialog box appears.
   
   
4. Click Import.
   
   
5. Browse for the region file, and then click OK. The new region will be added to the list.

Note

Duplicate regions will be ignored. The regions editor is case-insensitive.

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