How to Deploy Easy Tracker

This article introduces how to deploy Easy Tracker Professional/Enterprise in your team or company. After deployment, Easy Tracker can be used in the network, such as a local area network, wide area network, wireless network, and so on.

Tips: Easy Tracker Professional is suitable for one person or a small team with several members. While Easy Tracker Enterprise is suitable for a large-scale team or a company.

When you have purchased Easy Tracker Professional/Enterprise, you need make some configuration to use Easy Tracker.

Step1 Install Easy Tracker for Manager & Administrator

Easy Tracker Professional Start to install Easy Tracker,
  1. In the Choose setup edition of Easy Tracker dialog, select Professional Edition,
  2. In the Select Features dialog, select Easy Tracker Pro Suite, if you need track time&expense, select Easy Tracker Lite too, then continue to install. 
Easy Tracker Enterprise Start to install Easy Tracker,
  1. In the Setup Type dialog, select Custom,
  2. In the Select Features dialog, select Pro Suite, if you need track time&expense, select Client Suite too, then continue to install. If you are the first time to use Easy Tracker, or just want to test Easy Tracker, please select MSDE2000&Demo Database. If you have SQL Server installed, you can use Database Manager to create a new database, please refer to the database manager help for more details,

Step2 Install Easy Tracker for Team Member

Easy Tracker Professional Start to install Easy Tracker,
  1. In the Choose setup edition of Easy Tracker dialog, select Professional Edition,
  2. In the Select Features dialog, unselect Easy Tracker Pro Suite, and select Easy Tracker Lite, then continue to install.
Easy Tracker Enterprise Start to install Easy Tracker,
  1. In the Setup Type dialog, select Custom,
  2. In the Select Features dialog, unselect Pro Suite, and select Client Suite, then continue to install.

Step3 Publish Easy Tracker DBConfig.INI to All Users using Easy Tracker

Easy Tracker Professional
  1. For a team to share the database, someone with administrator access privileges must install the database file in a public place where all members can access it from the network,
  2. Add the database information to the database configuration file (Easy Tracker DBConfig.INI) with Database Manager, please refer to the database manager help for more details,
  3. Publish the file to your team members.
Easy Tracker Enterprise
  1. For members to access the database, someone with administrator access privileges needs to add the database information to the database configuration file (Easy Tracker DBConfig.INI) with Database Manager, please refer to the database manager help for more details,
  2. Publish the file to team members.

Step4 Create Account for All Users using Easy Tracker

Start Easy Tracker Pro, create accounts for the users who need use Easy Tracker.

Set the Leader Uses field as None for the ordinary users, while set the Leader Users as Report and Pro Tools for the manager or administer.

If the user need use Easy Tracker Lite to track time and expenses, set the User Uses field as Lite Tools.

After create the accounts, notify the user the new account.

Setp 5 Access Easy Tracker

Start Easy Tracker Lite, Easy Tracker Pro or Easy Tracker Report, click the Browse button to open the database configuration file published before, and enter the user id and password to login.

You can login to one of the Easy Tracker applications on any computer with a connection to the database file, such as a local area network, wide area network, wireless network, and so on.

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