VinPlus Installation Guidelines_Rev01

VinPlus Installation Guidelines This document provides details on installation of VinPlus. Akshatha R 25/02/2012

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Table of Contents

1) Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3

2) Abbreviations/Acronyms Used ......................................................................................................... 3

3) Minimum System Requirements ...................................................................................................... 3

4) Assumptions ...................................................................................................................................... 3

5) Installation Procedure ....................................................................................................................... 3


1) Introduction

This document contains installation guidelines for VinPlus.

2) Abbreviations/Acronyms Used a) DB – Database b) API – Application Programming Interface c) SQL – Structured Query Language d) RAM – Random Access Memory e) GB – Giga Bytes f) MS – Microsoft

3) Minimum System Requirements a) Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo or equivalent b) RAM: 1 GB (2GB recommended) c) Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® Server / 2000 / XP / 7 – 32-bit (with latest Service

Pack) d) Microsoft® .Net Framework 2.0 (2.0.50727.42) e) Microsoft® Excel 2003 f) Microsoft® SQL Server® Express / 2005

4) Assumptions Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 or SQL Server® Express is installed.

5) Installation Procedure a) Double click the setup file (with file extension .msi) to start installation. A window will

appear as below.

b) Click ‘Next’ as shown.


c) Read the End-User License Agreement and check ‘I accept the terms in the License

Agreement’ option. Click ‘Next’.


d) In the next screen (shown below), the installation can be customized by selecting or

omitting services such as Parser Service, Convert API Service, DLMS Service and DLMS

SANDS MRI Service. Click ‘Next’ once selection is completed.

e) Now click ‘Install’ to install the application.


f) The installation window will display progress as shown in the following screenshots.


g) Once installation of VinPlus is complete, the following window will appear.


h) Fill in the User ID, Password and Data Source as shown. If a new VinPlus database is to be

created, then select ‘Create New DB’ and select ‘Database File’ location using the Browse

button. Click ‘Start’.

If a VinPlus database is already present at the selected location, a message box will be

displayed as shown. Click ‘OK’.

The database file will be stored at selected database location and a new VinPlus database

will be created in selected “Data Source” as shown.

Note: The user ID and password details of Microsoft® SQL Server® that VinPlus uses

will be as per the database configuration file. Any changes in the database

configuration should be updated in config.ini file of VinPlus through ‘Edit

Configuration’ in VinPlus.


i) If an existing VinPlus database needs to be updated, select ‘Update Existing DB’. Click ‘OK’

on the pop-up message box. Click ‘Start’ button. Click ‘OK’. The existing VinPlus database

will be updated without deleting existing data.


Note: ‘Update Existing DB’ option is applicable only VinPlus versions released after

Version 1.0 Release 12. For VinPlus Version 1.0 Release 12and below, please select

‘Create New DB’.

Note:

i. Select Data Source as ‘(local)’ if SQL Server Standard/Enterprise editions are

installed. Select ‘.\SQLExpress’ as Data Source only if SQL Server Express edition

is installed.


ii. SQL Server needs full access to the selected database path. The database file

should have administrative rights and it should not be shared, compressed or

password protected.

j) After step g, if a database should not be created, then click ‘Skip’ as shown.

k) If User ID or Password fields are empty and ‘Skip’ is clicked, a message box will be displayed

as shown. Click ‘Yes’. Another message box will be displayed. Click ‘OK’. User ID and

password needs to be updated manually in the VinPlus configuration file.


l) Click ‘Finish’ to complete the installation.


m) After installation is complete, the folders for Convert API and Parser operations will be

created at the VinPlus installation location. They will be named ‘Convert’ and ‘Parser’

respectively. Initial configuration will be done automatically by the setup.

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