Actinic on 2 computers

[Darfield]

Hi,

we are currently using actinic business7. We would like to know if we are aloud to install actinic on 2 computers, this because we would like to maintain the website from somewhere else (outside the company)

thank you

darfield

[Nadeem]

Hi there

Yes you are allowed to install actinic on 2 machines. The licence agreements says you cannot use the same licence key to upload to different server for different stores.

Kind Regards

[KenWheeler]

So, is it just a question of installing Actinic on the second machine, entering the licence key and importing the site backup file?

[wjcampbe]

From the working machine - go to Advanced | Network Settings and click the Export button - you can then Import these settings on the other machine - saving a lot of hassle.

At the same time, go to Housekeeping | Security and copy the contents of the four boxes off to NotePad or similar and save that - copy the file across to the new machine, and you can cut and paste to get the settings there right first time too.

[KenWheeler]

Thanks Bill.

[Mark H]

Isn't there a problem insofar that snapshots have to be constantly passed between the two PCs before an upload is made on either PC so that they are "in sync" in terms of design, orders and stock? ie if a change in design is made on the "design" PC, a snapshot has to be passed to the "orders" PC so that the "orders" PC doesn't upload an old design when it is regularly updating stock levels?

PS - my question/comment applies particularly where two PCs are in use at the same time for different tasks (design/orders) - however if the second PC is only at use in the evening, and the first PC is only in use in the daytime, and both are doing the same things, there is less of a problem.

[BevS97]

Isn't there a problem insofar that snapshots have to be constantly passed between the two PCs before an upload is made on either PC so that they are "in sync" in terms of design, orders and stock? ie if a change in design is made on the "design" PC, a snapshot has to be passed to the "orders" PC so that the "orders" PC doesn't upload an old design when it is regularly updating stock levels?

We only ever use one pc for catalog and the other pc for ordering. The ordering pc never uploads the site (it has that functionality switched off), and the catalog pc never downloads orders.

his works well - BUT - you can't use the stock level functionality when operating a 2 pc model as the catalog machine has no knowledge of stock levels and the stock levels are uploaded via the catalog process, but adjusted via the orders process. These is a great disappointment to us, as we thought we would be able to use the stock levels and we can't.

[Mark H]

That's partly my point - for instance our site is configured to show when a product is out of stock - people still order but it saves a lot of having to tell people that they can't have their goodies straight away

[Mark H]

One other thing that occurs to me (sorry - doing gloomy today) is that one might have difficulty if one ever wanted to revert to a one PC model or have a single site snapshot - does anyone know of a way of combining a design on one PC with a product and order history on another (long since un-synced) PC - hopefully easy but I can't just think how you would do it.

[I-CC]

If the split is products & settings on one machine and orders (alone) on the other machine, then create a snapshot of the products machine and import that snapshot (same versions as usual) into the orders machine ensuring that the overwrite target orders is not enabled.

This will make the order download machine insync with the development machine... If you need it the other way around, i.e. orders onto products machine, then you can export the orders alone, but it is known to have issues with lots of orders, so easier the way explained above.

[paulhesford]

Developer - Business

HI
Can we update design from computer running developer and download on another pc using Business, I get the error msg upgrade you version : -
Server version 7FJBA
Client Version 7gbga

Thanks Paul

[I-CC]

This means that the 2 machines do not have the same version of actinic installed.

You need to go into Help | About on both machines and then get the Business machine onto the exact same version as the Developer machine (Assuming you did develop and upload this site using your developer).

[elastics]

Desktop & Laptop Use

I shall run into a similar issue soon. I have developer v7 and am creating a number of sites that I need to access from either my laptop or desktop. Does the licence allow this and how can I set this up to ensure it functions correctly.

Thanks

[jont]

You should be OK with developer as it handles everything under the same main engine - so snapshotting from PC to Laptop should be a breeze

[paulhesford]

Developer works with Business

Thanks support @ techno

The error msg as been addressed by updating my developer version to the same version as the business software

Thanks Paul