Trial Hosting

[forsey]

I am trying to use the Trial Hosting but there is very little help available in configuring the FTP.
The configuration says to search for "manual intall" in the online catalouge. Having used the search invarious ways nothing is to be found.

Is there a detailed "how to" use the Trial hosting?

[Spark]

Got into a mess doing this today but was walked through it by Krithika in Tech support. Printed out the info sheet when I applied for the test hosting:

To change from you own server to Actinic Trial server: From within Actinic – advanced / network set-up – Look in the top right hand corner if it's not already set to Actinic Host Mode then click on convert – message "are you sure you want to convert your catalog to an Actinic Host Catalog?" Presume that if it's already in this mode you can skip this part - if you get it wrong at any point whilst uploading, as I understood it, you just start this bit again by pressing convert twice (this resets it).

Click Yes.

Enter your actinic trial site username: [something like: trial+7digits] and password (again given with trial site info).
The configuration file URL is: http://trials.actinic.com/ConvertToActinicHost.txt
Then click ok.
You'll also need to put the catalog URL in – this is the shop id so something like: http://trials.actinic.com/trials/trial+5digits/
Then click ok again to get out of network setup.
Think after that I had to click on the Web tab and then on update website the first time it uploaded it took ages (thought it had gone wrong) but it was ok.

I know other people used web wizard but didn't end up doing this so don't have a clue how those work. Hope this helps though.