There are several ways to change the default Select Server your client application automatically logs into when you start Select.
The typical way is hold down SHIFT+CTRL just after you double-click the Select icon on the desktop and wait for the program icon to appear in the taskbar. Then release the keys and you can use the popup to select available servers. You can select the “Set as default” checkbox to make this your new default server. But where is this value stored?
If you launch Select from the command line, it will still look for the SHIFT+CTRL key combination do determine if it should display the popup.
In either case, if you don’t have a default setting stored already, it will display the server selection popup.
Where is the Default Server Value Maintained?
To find the default server setting for the user account, go to the following folder and open the config file.
C:\Users\<user folder>\AppData\Roaming\SoftPro\Select\4.3\Select.user.config
Go to the SoftPro.Select.Settings section and, if a default server is selected, you will see the value in the XML key displayed below. In the example below, the Select application logs into the server “UCT_PROD_001:8080/ProductionServer_001”. If a default server is not set or the key is missing, you will always get the server selection popup.
<SoftPro.Select.Settings>
<add key="ServerAddress" value="http://UCT_PROD_001:8080/ProductionServer_001" />
...
</SoftPro.Select.Settings>
When you change your default server using the popup process described at the top of this article and set the “Set as default” checkbox, Select will update the ServerAddress XML key when you exit the application normally.