MAX_DB Ins Manual

Installation Guide

Installation of IDtech applications with MaxDb database

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Table of contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................ 3

RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................................................................ 5

INSTALLATION OF THE IDTECH APPLICATIONS ON THE SERVER ....................................................... 7

UPDATE OF THE IDTECH APPLICATIONS ..................................................................................................... 19

IDTECH SCRIPT......................................................................................................................................................... 19 Installation of the updates ................................................................................................................................... 19

UPDATE OR CREATION OF THE DATABASE ................................................................................................. 21

UPDATE OF AN EXISTING DATABASE ......................................................................................................................... 21 CREATION OF A NEW DATABASE ............................................................................................................................... 23

REGISTRATION OF THE KEY ............................................................................................................................ 25

INSTALLATION OF A CLIENT WITH A MAXDB INSTALLATION ............................................................ 29

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Recommendations

A. To install the IDtech applications, you must be a member of the “Windows

administrator” group of the computer.

Go to: Start / Control Panel / User accounts and check if the user has administrator rights.

If you have no administrator rights, the installation will not be done properly.

If necessary ask your administrator to grant you the “administrator rights” during this installation.

B. We recommend installing the application on a different drive (for example D), than the system drive (general C drive).

If you ever encounter problems with Windows, and you would need to reinstall it, you will more easily recover your database when it is on a different drive.

If your computer has only one drive, ask your administrator to create a new partition.

C. Windows Vista.

Our products (IDtech version 6.5.2 and above and MaxDB delivered with) are compatible with Vista.

Some recommendations are recommended.

Disable User Account Control (UAC). This will affect all users on your computer.

Click “Start” / “Control Panel”.

Click “User Accounts and Family Safety”.

Click “User Accounts”.

Click “Turn User Accounts on or off”.

Click the tick on the box beside the “UAC to help protect your computer”.

Click “OK”. When asked and restart your computer

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Installation of the IDtech applications on the server

To start the ‘setup’, go to the directory “setup” under 6.5. Click “Idtechapp”.exe.

Windows Installer is starting. Please wait a few moments.

Do not click “Cancel”.

Next ‘Welcome’ screen will be displayed.

Click ‘Next’ to continue.

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Information about Adobe. Please visit the webpage to install.

Click “Next”.

Select the type of installation. To install a server, please select ‘Server Installation’.

Click “Next”.

Select the destination directory where you want to install the IDtech applications.


We suggest you to install the application on the D-drive. Therefore change the default directory into d:\idtech. If you do not have a second drive, keep the default (c:\idtech).

Click “Browse”.

Fill in the correct directory. Click “OK”.

For internal reasons, I do all installations on the C-drive. Please do not pay attention to the directory settings in this screen.

Click “Next”.


Select the applications you want to install on your server.

Click “Next”.

Please select the database version. For this installation choose MaxDb.

Click “Next”.

To execute this installation correctly, you must be a user with administrator rights. If you have no such rights, please fill in the information of a user with such authorizations.

Click “Next”.


Type the email address for our applications and the name of the email server. Follow the recommendations of the network specialist.

Click Next

Fill in the name for the shared directory. Keep the default “IdtechApp”.

Click “Next”.


Summary of the installation parameters.

Click “Next”.

Installation procedure running.

Do NOT click “Cancel”.

We need ‘Python’ software to create our reports.

For the installation of this part of the software please always keep the default values.

Click “Next”.


Click “Next”.

Click “Next”.

Installation of ‘Python’.


The installation of the first part of ‘Python’ is finished.


Click “Finish”.

Continuing installation of a new part of the Python program.

Click “Next”

Click “Next”


Click “Next”

Click “Finish”

The setup shall continue the installation of the IDtech applications.

Installation of the MaxDb database.



Welcome screen for the database installation.

Click “Next”.

Proposes the directory for the database. Keep default d:\idtech\database.

Click “Next”.

Summary of the installation parameters.

Click “Next”.


Installation of the MaxDb database.


The program continuous the installation.

No action needed.

Installation of the database finished.

Click “Finish”.


Installing the MaxDB runtime.


At the end of the installation, the setup will create a new group of IDtech programs available for all the users of this PC.

Do NOT restart the PC now. If you would you will start the services, and you will not be able to execute the updates.

Select “No, I will restart my computer later”.

Click “Finish”.

After the installation, the software opens the webpage for installing the ‘Adobe reader’ software.

If you do not need to install this, close the browser.

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Update of the IDtech applications

Before using the IDtech applications, you must install the updates.

IDtech Script

Installation of the updates On the CD, find a ‘PTF’ directory with some subdirectories inside like: bin, dict, sql, etc.

This operation can be done with Explorer.

Select all the subdirectories of the `PTF' directory of your CD.

Paste those directories in the ‘IDtech’ directory of your installation.

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The explorer will ask if you want to copy the files in question on the existing ones.

Click “Yes to all”.

Copying the files.

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Update or creation of the database

Update of an existing database

The update must be executed when the ptf files have been copied to the IDtech directory.

A sql script is available to update the database.

You will find this file in the ”idtech\sql\sap” directory : «alter65.sql».

This operation can be carried out via a DOS window by typing the following commands:

EX: on d:

Cd\idtech\sql\sap (Use \; move to idtech\sql\sap)

execsql alter65.sql (executes the sql alter65)

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To complete the upgrade of the database, type the following commands in the same DOS window :

cd common/dict (Use /; move to common\dict)

execsql getdict.sql (executes the sql getdict.)

Update of the translation files. Update the translation files used by the reports in Unitime and Unipass. When the getdict is finished, execute the command “RPTSYNCHRO” in the same subdirectory.

When the updates are finished, you may restart your computer to make your installation effective.

During the setup of the IDtech applications, the database is automatically created.

The command “MakeAllDB.sql” has already been executed.

This must only be done over again, when the database has been deleted. Please find hereafter the procedure to create a new database.

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Creation of a new database

A sql script is available to create a new database.

This file is located in the directory: “idtech\sql\sap\database”.

The name is: “MAKEALLDB.SQL”.

This operation can only be done when the IDtech applications are installed.

Start a DOS window and type the following command: Ex. on d type:

cd\idtech\sql\sap\database

execsql makealldb.sql

When the script is finished, the tables are generated in the IDtech database.

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Registration of the key

On the same CD, with your installation program, you also received the “key” files which allow you to use the IDtech programs.

To register those keys, you have to use the ‘UNIAUTH’ program in the IDtech folder.

First select all the files from the directory “key” on your CD.

Copy those files into the directory “idtech\idtech” .

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Open the “UNIAUTH” program.

Click on the “register key” button or open “License” / “Register”.

Click “OK” to register the software.

To view the parameters of your key, open “License” / “Show”.

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This will give you all the license information of your key.

Please do the same for every software, you ordered.

The installation is finished, the software is ready for use.

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Installation of a client with a MaxDb installation

Recommendations:

IDtech with MaxDB must first be installed on the server computer. This computer must be reachable over the network.

The client computer, where the services will be installed, must have access to the server computer.

From the client computer, connect you to the “Server”. Use the Utility “My Network Places” and scroll through the network. By doing this, the information will be used correctly in the Windows Loader.

Open the shared directory “IdtechApp”.

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Open the directory “Netsetup”.

Execute the command “IdappClientNet” application.

Please wait a few moments for the next screen.

Installation screen for IDtech applications.

Click “Next”.


Choose Destination Location. The destination should be put in with complete name of “Server Computer” and “Shared Directory”. If there are any shortcuts in this screen click Browse to change those settings.

Click “Next”.

With this screen, adapt the Destination Location if it is faulty.

Click “OK” followed by “Next” (see previous screen).

Select the Features you wish to install.

Click “Next”


Installation of your database.

Click “Yes”.

Select Program Folder. Keep IDtech as folder (default).

Click “Next”

Overview of the Installation parameters.

Click “Next”


Overview of the status of the installation.


Start of the installation of the “ODBC-parameters”.

Click “Next”

Selection of the Destination Location for ODBC.

Click “Next”.


Overview of the ODBC installation.

Click “Next”.

End of the ODBC installation.

Click “Next”.

The setup will continue the installation of the IDtech applications en will return for a short while to the installation status.

Click “Next”.

Installation of a client workstation is completely finished. A restart is not necessary.

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