Net-It^® Central 8.2 software from Informative Graphics Corporation turns your intranet into a document sharing platform for your entire organization, your business partners, and your customers. Net-It Central automatically collects, publishes, and maintains engineering desktop documents as linked collections of "intranet documents" that look exactly like the originals and can be used immediately in any standard browser without plug-ins.

Deliver critical documents to the right people inside and outside your organization. Net-It Central is a complete, lightweight portal solution for customers seeking out-of-the-box deployment to share and collaborate architectural, manufacturing design content or office documents. Take full advantage of the Net-It Central intranet publishing system by extending your publishing team with the browser-based Contributor. No HTML conversion or webmaster is required and authors can contribute directly to the site - any time and from anywhere. Suppliers and outside contributors can access and collaborate without having to purchase, download or install any software. With customizable site templates, an open programming API, and CentralTools connectors for integrating with other applications, you can fully customize your file sharing solution.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

To create document sites using Net-It Central, you need:

· Windows 2008 32/64 bit, Windows 2008 R2, Windows XP (SP1a or greater), or Windows 2003 (Standard or Enterprise edition).

· At least 256MB RAM. More RAM will greatly improve system performance. 1GB RAM recommended.

· 200MB available hard disk space required for Net-It Central and all installed files. At least 75MB of additional hard disk space required for temporary files created during the installation process.

· Additional disk space required for temporary files and spool files created when Net-It Central publishes. Space required varies with number and complexity of documents managed. Recommend at least 2GB.

· TCP/IP enabled.

· Access to any Web server or Web hosting service.

· The native applications of any document types that are to be converted (e.g., MS Office, Corel)

· If licensed for annotation, JRE 1.6.0.11 is needed to run the java server. The Net-It Central install will automatically install this component if not found on your system.

To view documents published to the intranet (end-user machine), you need:

· Windows 2000 (SP2 or greater), Windows XP (SP1a or greater), Windows 7, Windows 2003 (Standard or Enterprise edition), or Windows Vista

· Supported browsers include: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (or later), Netscape 6.0

· JRE 1.6.0.11 if using the java viewer for annotation

INSTALLATION

If you are upgrading from a previous version of Net-It Central, please read the Upgrading section now.

To install Net-It Central 8.2:

From CD:

· Quit any applications you are currently running before installing.

Note: You must install Net-It Central from an account with administrative privileges.

· Place the Net-It Central 8.2 CD in your CD-ROM drive.

· The Net-It Central CD Browser automatically launches. Click the Install Net-It Central button and follow the instructions on your screen.

OR..

From the download executable (from our website):

· Quit any applications you are currently running before installing.

Note: You must install Net-It Central from an account with administrative privileges.

· Open Windows Explorer and browse to the Net-It Central subdirectory of the directory where you unpacked the install images.

· Double-click the Setup.exe file to begin the setup.

· Follow the instructions on your screen to install Net-It Central 8.2

Then...

· Net-It Central requires a license file to run. A 30 day trial license is provided by IGC sales upon request. You must contact IGC at 800-398-7005 to acquire a valid license file (IGCKey.lic) for continued usage. You must provide a static IP address or hostname of the machine where Net-It Central is installed. Copy the acquired license file to the installed program directory (e.g. Save As C:\Program Files\IGC\Net-It Central\LicenseKey\IGCKey.lic and click YES when prompted to confirm replacement of the existing file).

· Go to the Net-It Central program group under Windows Start menu and select Net-It Central to start the program. Configure the site properties according to the online help tutorial and build your site.

· Once installed, refer to the Net-It Central help document for additional information about installing and establishing communication through the Brava! Server for markup functionality if you have purchased this option. The Brava Server is launched through Start-> All Programs-> Net-It Central -> Launch Brava and must be running on the server for users to open and save markup files.

WHAT'S NEW

New features in this release (Net-It Central 8.2)

· Windows 2008 64-bit Windows 2008 R2, and Windows 7 support

· The Brava! ActiveX Viewer has been upgraded from version 6.2 to 7.0

· Conversion to Flash and conversion to PDF using Amyuni drivers is no longer supported. Conversion to PDF using IGC drivers, however, continues to be fully supported.

New features in the previous release (Net-It Central 8.1)

· Windows 2008 32-bit Windows support

· Net-It Central now excludes access to files which are not included in a site. Property Manager will not list files whose path exceeds MAX_PATH, so they cannot be selected for inclusion or exclusion in the Site build.

· Search Term Highlighting has been added to ASP Site searching. Highlighting is defined by making the search terms bold (or optionally, highlighted) on the search results page and only applies to the first page of documents that show up on the results page. Bolding or highlighting on any subsequent page that is opened from the search term is not currently supported.

· Various bug fixes and fidelity enhancements.

· New Options.ini settings add the following behaviors:

1. Ability to generate one search html per document

2. Ability to register multiple time slots for Scheduled Builds

3. Template variables added to hold Brava Viewer's version number and class ID.

· The Brava! Java Viewer has been upgraded from version 5.4 to 5.5

· The Brava! ActiveX Viewer has been upgraded from version 6.0 to 6.2:

· A new Task Pane has been added to the ActiveX Viewer. This window panel is located on the right side of the Brava! viewer that can be toggled open or closed. Currently, only the Thumbnails panel is enabled when used with Net-It Central.

New features in the previous release (Net-It Central 8.0)

· Ability to convert files to PDF format using native drivers.

· Options available on the Viewing menu to build a site using Brava ActiveX or Brava Java viewers to view converted CDL.

· Ability to markup files in client viewer and save in server repository via the Brava Enterprise Java Viewer, version 5.4J

UPGRADING FROM AN EARLIER VERSION

· Beginning with version 7.0, Net-It Central "Central Tools" are compiled with MFC VS. 7.1. Due to MFC 7.1 interface changes, all third party Central Tools need to be updated and recompiled in VS 7.1. See the Central Tools manual included in your installation for details.

· By design, uninstalling Net-It Central 8.2 does not remove your existing Templates or CSS (style sheets) folders. Installing Net-It Central 8.2 will not overwrite the files in the existing Template 3.5 folder (from previous versions of Net-It Central), but reinstalling Net-It Central 8.2 will overwrite anything contained in existing Template 6.0 and *.css folders with the new template and style sheet files if no action is taken to preserve the existing files. If you would like to keep your modified templates and style sheets, you can either make backup copies of, or rename these top level directories before reinstalling (e.g., CustomTemplates and CustomCSS). After reinstalling, you can copy any custom files that you want to use from your renamed or backup folders to the new Templates 6.0 and *.css folders.

· If you customized earlier Net-It Central templates and wish to include 8.2 features, add your modifications to the templates shipped with Net-It Central 8.2.

· After backing up any files you wish to keep, you must uninstall your previous version of Net-It Central through your Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs utility before you will be able to install Net-It Central 8.2.

· Your old Net-It Central project files can be opened by Net-It Central v7.x and v8.x, but once opened, they will not be able to be read by an earlier version of Net-It Central.

· Before running Net-It Central 8.2, make a backup copy of your .ncp project files in case you choose to go back to a previous Net-It Central version. Net-It Central will upgrade the .ncp files so they can no longer be read by an earlier Net-It Central version. It is recommended that you perform a test build to a non-production site to verify the full site rebuild works properly before deleting the older version .ncp file.

· Users upgrading from versions lower than Net-It Central 6.0 may experience difficulty viewing documents in the ActiveX viewer due to incorrect values in the Document Site URL field of the Locations tab. Net-It Central 6.0 through 8.2 use the variable {NI_File.AbsolutePath} in the JavaScripts.js file for the ActiveX viewer. If the Document Site URL is specified but incorrect, the ActiveX viewer will fail to load documents. Users upgrading their sites should insure that the Document Site URL field is empty, or has a valid file URL or HTTP URL for the published site.

USAGE TIPS

APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY and WORKAROUNDS

Several workarounds are included in your Net-It central installation directory that help with a variety of issues regarding the interaction between Net-It Central and third party applications that cannot be solved by modification of Net-It Central. Below explains these workarounds as well as other third party software compatibility issues.

· Windows XP, Service Pack 2: Please refer to the XPSP2_UserNotes.htm document for specific issues and workarounds if you are running Net-It Central on a Windows XP SP2 system.

· Windows Vista: A known issue exists for auto update to install Java 1.6 which is necessary to run the Brava Enterprise Java Viewer. Manual uninstall of your current version and download of version 1.6.0_11 may be necessary.

· The publishing server (running either or both Net-It Central or the Job Processor) should NOT have any other applications or users running on it (aside from the Net-It Central publishing processes) as termination of these outside processes can result.

· The maximum file path length (path + filename length) for Office documents and other file formats is limited to 218 characters. You can find more information through the following link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325573

· Microsoft Office applications may display dialogs that interfere with the Net-It Central build progress. To avoid these problems, make sure to turn off the Office Assistants, uncheck "Display Alerts" in the Office Assistant options dialog.

· Net-It Central's new Contributor does not support Netscape version 6.0 or higher.

· If you want Net-It Central to support a foreign language Office document so the characters of a foreign language are rendered correctly:

§ Ensure that English is selected as your primary language

§ From your Windows Start menu, go to Programs | Microsoft Office Tools | Microsoft Office Language Settings

§ Select the language that you want supported on your Net-It Central build server

· HTML conversion in Office 2000/XP is supported for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint only.

· Access 2000 databases need to be opened manually in Access and updated before they will convert with Net-It Central.

· The Microsoft Find Fast component of Microsoft Office interferes with the operation of Net-It Central. Disable or remove this component from your Net-It Central machine.

· Net-It Central obeys the "font smoothing" setting in the Plus! tab of the Display control panel when converting text to GIFs. If the text appears over a colored background, the text will have a fringe of white pixels. To avoid this problem, turn off font smoothing while building your Web site.

· On Windows 2003/2008, Net-It Central must be installed on the console machine with Terminal Services running to install the appropriate CSF Writer printer driver. You cannot install Net-It Central on a machine running Terminal Services from a Terminal Services session. If Terminal Services is installed on the server running Net-It Central, and you wish to uninstall the product, you must also manually uninstall the CSF Writer printer driver through the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs dialog. This can be done either before or after uninstalling Net-It Central

· Anti-Virus software: Publishing through DLAutoPublish with the CSF Writer print driver may be affected if an Anti-Virus software is running. Timeout values are set in the CSF Writer driver and printing/conversion can fail if the Anti Virus is running and checks the print spooler and EMF files. To resolve this issue, either turn off the Anti Virus software on the build machine, or filter out spooler, temp, and other conversion related output folders and files in the Anti-Virus checker.

· Microsoft Excel: A workaround macro is available called OneJob.xla that can be used with products from Informative Graphics to prevent a problem that can occur when publishing Excel files that contain more than one Worksheet. If Worksheets contained in one Excel file have differing resolution quality settings, Excel will start more than one print job, resulting in incomplete published documents. This effect is a know Excel issue and is documented further in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;168563

The workaround macro sets the resolution of each Worksheet to 600 dpi every time before printing.

To us the macro:

· Copy OneJob.xla from your Net-It Central directory \Workarounds folder and paste it into your Excel auto start folder (usually called XLStart and is located in your Excel application directory within the Microsoft Office directory). An example path would be: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\XLStart. If you use a customized location, copy the macro to that location.

· After you have copied the macro into this folder a toolbar named "IGC Workaround" is created when Excel is started. The macro works automatically and the single button on the toolbar shows a short explanation about the Workaround when moused over. It is only present to show that the macro is active and is deleted again every time you close Excel.

· If you choose to deactivate the macro, simply delete the OneJob.xla file from your XLStart directory.

· Microsoft Excel: Another workaround tool is available in the \Workarounds directory, similar to OneJob.xla, called DPI Tools.xls. This tool can be used if you are not able to run the Add-in when using the Excel Viewer for conversion. This tool lets you select a folder that contains Excel files and then opens each selected file and sets the PrintQuality to 600 dpi for each Worksheet. No install required, simply open the file DPI Tools.xls.

· Microsoft Excel: Also available in the \Workarounds directory, is a tool called PageBreakVeiw.xla. Use this macro for multi-page Excel worksheets only while using Windows 2003/2008 machines. This macro necessitates repagination of the document by Print Preview to align page breaks within the document.

To us the macro:

· Copy PageBreakView.xla from your Net-It Central directory \Workarounds folder and paste it into your Excel auto start folder (usually called XLStart and is located in your Excel application directory within the Microsoft Office directory). An example path would be: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\XLStart. If you use a customized location, copy the macro to that location.

· If you choose to deactivate the macro, simply delete the PageBreakView.xla file from your XLStart directory.

· Microsoft Excel: If Excel files republish on every build. Net-It Central checks the CRC's of files to determine if they have changed and therefore need to be republished. A macro is available called RemovePersonalInfo.xla that enables the "Remove personal information from file properties on save" option. When this option is disabled (on the Security tab of the Options dialog), this causes Excel files to be changed when opened and therefore republished. To use the macro:

· Copy the file RemovePersonalInfo.xla into your Excel startup folder (XLStart) to force the macro to load each time Excel starts up. An example path would be: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\XLStart. If you use a customized location, copy the macro to that location.

· To uninstall the macro, simply delete it from your XLStart directory.

· Microsoft Excel: If you receive a DDE connection failure from DLAutoPublish while publishing an Excel document (can't open an Excel object from another program), do the following:

· In Excel from the Tools menu, select Options

· From the General tab, clear the check box for "Ignore other applications". If this option is selected, Excel ignores requests from programs that link to Excel data by means of DDE rather than OLE.

· Microsoft Excel: Processing workbooks that include all worksheets
In order for Net-It Central to be able to process all worksheets of a workbook, two registry entries must be modified.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\printto\ddeexec
Should be modified from:
[open("%1")][print(1,,,,,,,,,,,2,"%2")][close()]
to
[open("%1")][print(1,,,,,,,,,,,3,"%2")][close()]
and
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\printto\ddeexec\ifexec
Should be modified from:
[open("%1")][print(1,,,,,,,,,,,2,"%2")][quit()]
to
[open("%1")][print(1,,,,,,,,,,,3,"%2")][quit()]

· Microsoft PowerPoint: When using certain versions of the third party virtual printer CSF Writer, some PowerPoint versions (such as PowerPoint XP) automatically set the Grayscale option in the printer dialog each time a document is printed. An Add-in called PrintColor.ppa is available that, when active, sets the option to Color each time a document is printed. To install the Add-in, open PowerPoint and click Tools, then Add-Ins. Click the Add New button and browse to the location of PrintColor.ppa in your installed Net-It Central/Workarounds folder. Select it and click OK. The Add-in is now active. In this dialog, you can also Unload and Load the Add-in if you need to deactivate it regularly.

· Microsoft PowerPoint: When using certain versions of the third party virtual printer CSF Writer, some PowerPoint slides are clipped at the edges. An Add-in called FitToPage.ppa is available that, when active, sets the Fit To Page option each time a document is printed. To install the Add-in, open PowerPoint and click Tools, then Add-Ins. Click the Add New button and browse to the location of FitToPage.ppa in your installed Net-It Central/Workarounds folder. Select it and click OK. The Add-in is now active. In this dialog, you can also Unload and Load the Add-in if you need to deactivate it regularly.

· Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 2008 Server: It is recommended to Turn off User Account Control for NIC to function correctly. To turn off UAC:

1. From the system's Control Panel, open User Accounts.

2. Click the "Turn User Account Control on or off" link.

3. In the "Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure" options screen, un-check "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer" check box.

4. Click "OK" and restart the system.

Note: The User's permissions level/rights will affect how the UAC works

· Windows 2003/2008 Server: In order to install Net-It Central on a Windows Server, an adjustment to a printer setting is necessary in order to allow the CSF Writer Printer to install:

1. From the Start menu, choose Run and enter "gpedit.msc" in the Open input field.

2. The Group Policy Object Editor dialog box displays. Under Computer Configuration, select Administrative Templates >> Printers

3. The Printer setting "Disallow installation of printers using kernel-mode drivers" needs to be changed to a state of Disabled. Double click the setting to disable it.

Windows 2003/2008 Server: If "The Page Cannot be Displayed" error results when you try to access a Net-It Central site and you may find that when using Windows 2003, the Windows Firewall Settings are blocking access to ports used by the Web Server and FTP server. Exceptions must be added to the Windows Firewall Settings to allow access to Net-It Central sites. To do this:

1.      From the Windows Control Panel, select Network Connections -->Local Area Connection.

2.      Click the Properties button of the Connection Status Dialog box.

3.      Click the Advanced tab and then the Settings button to view the Windows Firewall settings form.

4.      Click the Exceptions tab and then click Add Port.

5.      Add ports for HTTP Port Number 80, FTP Upload Port Number 21, and HTTPS if necessary.

Windows 2003/Windows Vista/Windows 7/2008 Server with IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0: Starting with Internet Information Services 6.0 Microsoft changed the way it handles MIME types by default and follows the MIME type standard more closely now. It requires that the web server identifies every document's MIME type as it is being served over http. This makes it necessary to register IGC's proprietary file formats needed to view a web site generated by Net-It Central

These formats include:

.dl

Document or drawing page converted to the CDL format

.fd

Font data files needed to render text in CDL documents

.icr

IGC Color Raster file type for embedded raster images in CDL documents

.ig4

IGC Group 4 file type for monochrome raster images (originally g4) embedded in CDL documents

.irl

IGC Run Length file type for monochrome raster images embedded in CDL documents

.idx

text index generated by CDL for enabling site searching

.xdl

XML index file to load the complete CDL document

.zdl

compressed .dl file

Register these formats for the MIME type "application/brava-x" with the following procedure:

1.      Start your IIS Console via the Control Panel and Administrative Tools.

2.      Right-click on the root website and choose Properties.

3.      Click the HTTP Headers tab, then the File Types... button.

4.      In the File Types dialog, click the New Type... button.

5.      Enter the extension and "application/brava-x" as the Content Type.

6.      Hit OK to add the new type to the list.

7.      Repeat steps 4-6 for all file types listed.

8.      Click OK to close out the dialogs. The website should now be able to view CDL documents

If you want to enable the download of original documents and drawings that are not standard MIME Types such as .DWG or .906, you will need to add these to the list too.

BROWSER SETTINGS

· If you are viewing a site while it is being rebuilt, you may need to clear the browser caches to correctly view the new version of the site.

· Minimum Browser Settings for Viewing a Net-It Central Site:

To enable viewing of Net-It Central generated sites, you may need to set your browser security setting to a minimum level that allows certain Net-It Central technologies to function. There are two ways to achieve this. The easiest is to add the Net-It Central site to the list of Trusted Sites of your Internet browser. For IE, follow the steps below:

Click on the Tools menu and select Internet Options
In the Internet Options dialog box, click the Security tab
In the Security tab, click the Trusted Sites icon and then the Sites... button
Type in the main URL for the site you are trying to view, for example: http://www.infograph.com
Click the Add button to add the site to the list.
Close all open dialogs by clicking OK. The site should now view correctly in IE.

The second option is to enable only the needed technologies without marking the entire site as trusted. Based on the Default Security Level as "High" in Internet Explorer, follow these steps:

Click on the Tools menu and choose Internet Options.
In the Internet Options dialog box, click the Security tab.
In the Security tab, click the Internet icon. If the web site is on your Intranet, click the Local Intranet icon instead.
Click on the Custom Level... button.
In the Security Settings option list, enable the following options:

"Run components signed with Authenticode"
"Download signed ActiveX controls"
"Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins"
"Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting"
"File download"
"Active scripting"

Click the OK buttons to close the settings dialogs. Restarting IE is not necessary.

The "Download signed ActiveX controls" option is only needed for the first visit to the site. If so desired, it can be disabled again after the viewer has automatically installed on the first view of a document on the site. The "File download" option only needs to be enabled, if the web site offers downloading of original documents. (This is usually indicated by a small hard drive icon next to document link in table of contents.)

CENTRAL TOOLS

· In Chapter 2 of the Creating CentralTools Modules manual, step 5 of the Modifying the sample Central Tool section contains a NOTE that explains debugging: "...copy the PropertyManager_XD.dll into your Central Tools folder". In addition to copying this DLL, you will also need to copy the Contributor_XD.dll to get the debug version of the Contributor Central Tool and the NICOfficeToHTML_XD.dll to get the debug version of the Office 2000 HTML Central Tool.

· Net-It Central 7.0 implemented a new common category GUID for the Central Tool interface and will plug-in only the dll's that you have registered to this new GUID. If you are transitioning MFC VS 4.2 to MFC VS 7.1, you will need to incorporate the changes from the new sample files CategoryManager.h and CategoryManager.cpp. Copy and paste the changes into your CentralTools common category implementations.

· In order for the CentralTool UI to work with Net-It Central 7.x or 8.x, the third party central tools must be recompiled as Unicode when recompiling with MFC-VS 7.1. To do this, ensure the Unicode option is enabled in the Project - Configuration Properties\General\Character Set.

· You will need to re-register the CentralTool DLL file if you are upgrading Net-It Central from a previous version prior to 7.0. Earlier versions of the CentralTools module used MFC version 4.2 where MFC version 7.1 is used in Net-It Central 7.x and 8.x. CentralTools COM interface is declared with MFC objects which forces all Central Tool DLL's to build with the same version of MFC libraries that Net-It Central is built with.

CONTRIBUTOR

· The Contributor module of Net-It Central is an Active X control that functions in the end-user's browser.

· To ensure that all intranet site end-users can use the Contributor, it is recommended to use a shared folder with a UNC address as your document source. e.g., \\Myserver\Shared\MyFolder versus F:\MyFolder, where F: is mapped to \\Myserver\Shared. A mapped drive letter drive will only work if all end-users have an identical mapping to the source.

· Shortcuts to documents may be submitted using Contributor, however shortcuts to folders cannot be submitted.

· End users can traverse through folder shortcuts using Contributor, if the site only uses file system submittal. The user does need sufficient privileges to access the source folder.

· When metadata is entered in the Contributor for a document, Net-It Central generates a *.csi file when the site is built to store that information locally along with the source file. It can be useful to keep a document's *.csi file if you plan to contribute the file more than once, eliminating the task of having to re-enter the same metadata each time.

CUSTOM DOCUMENT INFORMATION FIELDS

· Net-It Central allows the site administrator to define custom Document Information for use with Contributor.

· Custom Document Information fields are defined within the file Docinfo.txt. This file is located in the Net-It Central folder. Metadata fieldnames can only contain letters and digits (no spaces or special characters). Field descriptions can contain any character except a quotation mark.

· The same custom Document Information fields also need to be added to each instance of the Metasrch.htm file and each instance of the Info.htm file in your template. As always, back up the original template before making any modifications.

· If you're using IIS 4.0 for your search engine, the custom Document Information fields need to be added to the [NAMES] section of the ni_search.idq file.

· The Docinfo.txt file will get overwritten if you reinstall Net-It Central. To preserve your changes, save a backup of this file before uninstalling or reinstalling Net-It Central 8.2.

· The custom Document Information fields need to be added to the Document Information field list in the searchpg.htm file to show up in the dropdown list for this page.

GENERAL

· When entering extensions in the Publishing tab of the Net-It Central Options dialog, the following characters are not recognized as part of a valid file extension: \t, ", #, %, *, /, :, ;, <, >, ?, [, \, ], ^, `, ', {, |, }, ~
If you wish to rebuild an entire site, you can hold down the Ctrl key while choosing Build "site name" from the Build menu.

· The HTML templates can be configured to download and install the document viewer one time rather than once per browser session. This speeds up the viewing of files on future browser sessions. This capability is included in the Net-It Central 8.2 templates.

· A Net-It Central Site that is generated using the Thumbnails template will have overlapping functionality because the Brava Viewer contains a task pane thumbnail panel.

· A template that has a style.css file in the root of the template will not have the .css file overwritten by Net-It Central during the template build process. Thus, users can either create their own custom style sheets and select them in the GUI or simply have a style.css file in the template root so the template always uses a specific style sheet.

· The Net-It Central build machine should not have any other processes running besides Net-It Central. To automate the build process and prevent the need for manual input during the build process, Net-It Central is configured to accept the default of any message dialogs that appear during the conversion process.

· On some Microsoft Office applications, a prompt might appear asking if you would like to disable macros. If during the conversion process Net-It Central accepts a default that is set to Yes. Macros will be disabled (including Acrobat PDFMaker). You can enable any macros that have been disabled through the applications Help-> About Microsoft menu. Select the Disabled Items button, select the item in the list to enable, and click Enable.

· Windows Services: To enable the Windows 2008 Service for Net-It Central to work in regular service mode, on a Windows 2008 Server x86 or Vista machine, create the following folder:

C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop

Options.ini Settings

An Options.ini file is available in the Net-It Central installation directory containing the following sections:

§ [Contributor_CABVersion] Value=<<CAB version>>
This value will replace NI variable "NI_Contributor.CABVersion" in contrib.htm within Templates 6.0\<<Template Name>>\Toc Level <<n>>" folder.

§ [SearchHTMLBOM] Set=Yes/No
If SearchHTMLBOM is set to Yes, Net-It Central adds Byte Order Mark to search HTML pages. If SearchHTMLBOM is set to No, Byte Order Mark is not added to search HTML pages.

§ [ExpiredFile] LeaveInSource=Yes/No
If LeaveInSource is set to Yes, expired files are not removed from the source location and remain in the NCP file to be parsed for the build status. If LeaveInSource is set to No, expired files are deleted from the source folder by default if no archive directory is specified.

§ [EnableSearch]
Set=Yes/No
Net-It Central sets this value based on whether Search is enabled on the Site Properties: General Tab before it starts processing a site.

§ [WordLinks] SetPrintPreviewMode=Yes/No

This option is applicable when extracting links for Word documents is enabled.

If set to Yes, the document is set to Print Preview mode while extracting links.

If set to No (the default), the document will be set to Normal or Print view while extracting links.

§ [OneSearchHTMLPerDocument] Value=Yes/No

If set to No, Net-It Central will create one search HTML file per page of the document that can reference the correct viewing page of the document from the search page.

If set to Yes, Net-It Central will create one search HTML file per document that can reference only the first page of the document from the search page.

§ [DisableCRC] Value=Yes/No
This option enables or disables CRC computation for a file. It is recommended that you back up your NCP file before setting this option.

§ [ServiceLog] Value=Yes/No
This option enables additional logging in service mode to trace Net-It Central service functionality. The log is written into Auxlog under the Site log folder.

§ [ServiceStopTimeoutForBuildInProgress] Value=20
This value sets the timeout to stop the service when a build is in progress and a user tries to launch Net-It Central. The default value is 60 seconds.

§ [UTF8SearchHTMLEncoding] Value=Yes/No
If UTF8SearchHTMLEncoding is set to Yes, Net-It Central generates search HTML pages in UTF-8 format. If UTF8SearchHTMLEncoding is set to No, search HTML pages are in ANSI/SHIFT_JIS format.

§ [StopBuildOnFileAccessDenied] Value=Yes/No
If StopBuildOnFileAccessDenied is set to Yes, and any file/folder is not accessible, Net-It Central will bail out and stop the build process. If StopBuildOnFileAccessDenied is set to No, and any file/folder has access denied, Net-It Central will check for document source folder access. If the root folder is not accessible, it will stop the build, otherwise the build will continue processing the next file.

§ [AdditionalSiteLog] Value=Yes/No
This option enables additional logging in the SiteLog during the build process.

§ [UseReferenceTimeForRepeatSchedule] Value=Yes/No

This option is applicable when you schedule builds from the Net-It Central application or from the Service. When set to Yes, Net-It Central writes the last build start time into the options.ini file. If the Net-It Central Service had to be re-started for any reason, this allows following the expected schedule (based on the last build start time) rather than the time when the Net-It Central Service is started. If set to No, Net-It Central internally writes the last build start time into options.ini in the LastBuildStartTimeForRepeatSchedule section. The default value is No.

§ [FTPUpload] SetWaitTime=Yes/No

This option is applicable when you choose to upload using FTP for Published Site Location. When set to Yes, the wait time is added after each file is uploaded. This option is added to resolve problems that can occur when too many connections are open. Note that setting this option to Yes will slow the upload process considerably.

§ BravaClientX ActiveX Viewer properties. These variables hold Brava Viewer's version number and Class ID. On installation, these will be set to the default values of the ActiveX viewer packaged with Net-It Central:

o [BravaXClient_CLASSID] Value=<<classID value>>
This value will replace NI variable "NI_BravaXClient.CLASSID" in ie_fix.js under Templates 6.0\<<Template Name>>\Doc Level <<n>>" folder.

o [BravaXClient_CABVersion] Value=<<CAB version>>
This value will replace NI variable "NI_BravaXClient.CABVersion" in ie_fix.js under Templates 6.0\<<Template Name>>\Doc Level <<n>>" folder.

o [BravaXClient_IntegrationVersion] Value=<<Integration Version>>
This value will replace NI variable "NI_BravaXClient.IntegrationVersion" in ie_fix.js under Templates 6.0\<<Template Name>>\Doc Level <<n>>" folder.

HYPERLINKS

· Net-It Central will detect internet locations (e.g. http://www.net-it.com) in the text of converted documents and turn them into links.

· Net-It Central has extended support for hyperlinks, bookmarks, and file references created in Microsoft Word 97 or later, Visio 5.0, Microsoft Excel, and Power Point.

· If you convert a Word 95 document to a later version of Word, you must manually update the Table of Contents in order for the Table of Contents links to work. If the links work in the later version of Word, they will also work in Net-It Central.

Note: Extended support for hyperlinks created in Microsoft Word applies only to Word hyperlinks associated with text (e.g. hyperlinks associated with graphics objects are not supported). When converting a bookmark that links to another document, the link will go to the first page of that document.

· Internet locations detected in text will not be converted to hyperlinks if the string contains shadowed style changes, rotated text, or if the string falls across more than one line.

· A BravaXClient parameter "FireEventOnBookmarkEntitySelected" has been added. User can set this parameter in dlxview.htm file for the selected Site template. If set to TRUE, the viewer control will fire an event when a bookmark entity is clicked. The event handler opens the document and the referenced bookmark page in a new browser window. If set to FALSE, the control will change the page to the target page in the same browser window. It is set to FALSE by default.

DLAUTOPUBLISH API

· The DLAutoPublish object in Net-It Central is AutoPublish.

· DLAutoPublish can only process one HTML file per document. The default sample API template DocTemplate.htm is implemented for use with the Brava! Viewer.

CONVERSION

CDL Conversion

· Embedded images in office documents converted to CDL have a maximum resolution of 600 dpi. You can adjust the MaxRasterDPI setting in the myrdrv.ini file to lower the resolution. You must edit this value if you require an image resolution greater than 600 dpi. Please see the myrdrv_userguide.rtf contained in your Net-It Central installation for detailed information about driver settings.

· If publishing on a Windows 2003/2008 Server with IIS 6.0, you will need to set MIME types for proprietary formats. See Workarounds section of this document.

PDF CONVERSION

· Two-way PDF conversion is available with Net-It Central. You can convert PDF documents to CDL files - and you can convert desktop documents to PDF files.

· To view PDF files published with Net-It Central, the end user must have Acrobat Reader installed on his machine. (Note: PDF files published as CDL do not need Acrobat installed on the end-user machine and will launch in the Brava! ActiveX viewer.)

· If a PDF file is password-protected, it will not be converted.

· Some non-Adobe applications create invalid PDF files that Net-It Central cannot convert. Use Adobe Exchange to open and re-save them in a valid format.

· Some characters may be converted to bitmaps during PDF to CDL conversion. These characters will not be available in the Copy Text dialog when viewing the converted document in the document Viewer.

· A new registry setting for the PDF converter is available for multilingual support. With this registry setting, you can convert multilingual documents (Kanji documents on English systems with Japanese language support installed). If you choose to use this setting, hyperlinks text extraction is disabled for the converted document.

· If the PDF rendering that comes with Net-It Central does not convert the PDF document to CDL correctly, and if you have Adobe Acrobat, you can use Acrobat as the conversion tool for PDF to CDL. If you are using Acrobat for viewing and printing PDF files and the outcome is blank, this is corrected by disabling the registry setting for PDF to CDL conversion (through IGC drivers) and then changing the Acrobat document jDocPrint action as follows:

1) To disable the registry setting:

· Open your registry and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Net-It Software Corp.\Net-It Central\Extensions\PDF

· Edit the REG_SZ value data to 0 if this registry key exists.

2) To change the jDocPrint action:

1.      From a Window's Explorer window, select Tools-->Folder Options

2.      From the File Types tab, select "PDF" from the Extension list

3.      Click Advanced and select "jDocPrint" from the Action list

4.      Click Edit to summon the "Editing Action for Type:" dialog box

5.      In the "Application used to perform Action" field, browse to the location of Acrobat.exe

6.      Edit the command line to include the following: /p /h "%1"

Example: "D:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" /p /h "%1"

CSF WRITER PRINT DRIVER

· If you experience problems publishing non-native documents with Net-It Central, verify that the temporary output directory for the published files points to a drive that has at least 2GB of free space. To do this:

1. From your Window's Printers and Faxes panel, right click on CSF Writer and select Properties.

2. From the General tab of the Properties dialog, select Printing Preferences.

3. From the Filename Generation tab, check the path entered in the Output Directory field. Make sure there is at least 2GB of free space in the directory indicated. Click OK to close the dialog.

4. From the Advanced tab of the Properties dialog, select Printing Defaults.

5. From the Filename Generation tab, check the path entered in the Output Directory field. Make sure there is at least 2GB of free space in the directory indicated. Click OK.

In addition, the drives containing the system spool folder (typically C:\WINDOWS\System32\Spool) and the EMF file output directory (from the Locations tab of the Site Properties dialog) should have 2GB of free space available.

IMPORTANT: The Temporary Build directory set in the Locations tab of the Net-It Central Properties dialog must be a local drive. It cannot be a UNC or mapped drive.

· Additional information and settings pertaining to the print driver component (CSF WRiter) that is part of the Signet Print Publisher can be found in <Signet Print Publisher Installation Directory>/Manual/PRTDRV_NT.doc

· CSF Writer is the component that DLAutoPublish uses to convert Office types of formats to CDL. If you experience any problems converting these types of files, follow the procedure outlined below to use the CSF Writer Message Capture tool. This tool allows you to determine the point where the problem is occurring and if all pages of a document are being converted to EMF successfully:

1. The CSF Writer Message Capture program allows you to view the messages sent by the print driver as it prints the contents of a file. It will return information on the Start of Document, Start and End of each Page, and End of Document. If you don't receive an End of Document notification, there is a problem with the entire document not being successfully converted by CSF Writer. The Message Capture program is located under the CSF Writer Software installation folder (e.g., C:\Program Files\IGC\CSF Writer\MessageCaptureSample).

2. In the MessageCaptureSample directory, click to launch MessageCaptureSample.exe.

3. Press Clear at the top of the dialog box to clear the initialization message.

4. Open the document you want to test for conversion and Print it using the CSF Writer as your chosen printer.

5. Review the MessageCaptureSample dialog. You should see the messages that were captured and whether the document printed successfully, or encountered errors.

· The CSF Writer spooler cannot process PowerPoint or Excel files that have a filename (excluding path) exceeding 123 characters. DLAutoPublish now checks the filename length of PowerPoint and Excel files when converting to CDL, and if greater than 123 characters, a DDE_conversion error is returned.

· Issue -After processing 400+ office documents Net It Central fails to publish any more on 2003 machines. (You may receive error code -23, insert file error.) When the task manager is opened and handles are viewed for the dlautopublish.exe process and print spoolsv.exe (Win 2003), the value will be extremely large ( i.e. over 5000).

Resolution - For either operating system, the JobProcessor.properties setting, dlautopublish.jobs.before.restart should be set lower (suggested value is 200). This will clean up some of the resources that DLAutopublish.exe stores.

PROPERTY MANAGER

· Setting a custom title or changing sort order in Property Manager will override the setting for that file or folder in a _NameMap.txt file.

· You can expand all subfolders in the tree view of the Property Manager tab by holding down the Ctrl key while expanding a folder (clicking on the + icon).

Note: If expanding the subfolders takes a while, you need to continue holding the Ctrl key down until the wait cursor is gone.

· Any file without an extension, and any file whose extension is in the Exclude Filter, is grayed out in Property Manager.

RUNNING AS A SERVICE

· Net-It Central can be scheduled to run as a Windows service. To enable Net-It Central to run as a service, select the checkbox Enable Net-It Central Service in the Build > Schedule Builds from Service dialog box.

· The service can be stopped (disabled) by deselecting the Enable Net-It Central Service checkbox in the Schedule Builds from Service dialog box. When you stop the service, you will also be given the option to uninstall the service.

· Net-It Central service needs to run under a valid user account (Username/Password) with Administrator privileges. A separate "Central" user account should be created for this purpose with a non-expiring password. The "Central" account also needs domain access privileges if network drives will be used for the source or destination locations. The Net-It Central service can not be run using the System Account.

· Before scheduling Net-It Central to run as a service, you need to log into Windows using the "Central" account interactively and perform a manual build with Central to ensure that all account privileges and preferences for other applications are set appropriately. The manual build should include a document of each type that will be used to ensure that all applications are set up correctly. See the note on Microsoft Office.

· After scheduling Net-It Central to run as a service, you can verify that the service installed properly by going to the "Services" control panel and looking for a service named "Net-It Central" in the services name column. Double clicking on the entry will display the properties of the service.

· During normal operation, you should not use the Services control panel to Start, Stop, Pause or Continue the Net-It Central service. Any scheduling changes must be made through the Net-It Central application.

· Starting the Net-It Central application will pause the service.

· If Net-It Central is being run as a service, the file endbuild.bat needs to be placed in the system path (e.g., \WINDOWS\System32). When a buildall completes, endbuild.bat is run allowing the site administrator to do extra processing when a site build is complete, For example, a site administrator can implement the necessary batch commands to email the errorlog.txt file when a build error occurs.

· If you wish to change the user account the service is registered for, you can do this by first disabling and uninstalling the service as described above; then reopen the Schedule Builds for Service dialog box in Net-It Central and enable the checkbox again.

· Net-It Central service events can be viewed using Windows Event Viewer application.

· Due to Windows standard behavior, source and upload locations on a network volume must use UNC addressing and not a mapped drive when running Net-It Central as a service (e.g. \\Myserver\Shared\MyFolder versus F:\MyFolder, where F: is mapped to \\Myserver\Shared).

· To support Net-It Central in regular Service mode on Windows 2008 systems, the installer will create the following folders:

On Windows 2008 Server x86 /Vista: C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop

SEARCH

·         With ASP Site Searching, if you would like search term results to be highlighted rather than bolded, you may make the following customization:

1.      Open for edit the file ni_search.asp, located in your Net-It Central installation's \SearchWizard\stemp\asp\ directory.

2.      Locate the following line:

strOutput=re.Replace(strInput,"<b>$1</b>")

3.      Replace with:

strOutput=re.Replace(strInput,"<span style='background-color: #ffff00;'>$1</span>")

4.      Save and close the asp file.

·         Please refer to the CiSearch.chm help file included in your Net-It Central installation for detailed instructions on setting up ASP Search for Windows 2008 (32 bit, 64 bit, and R2), Windows 7, and Vista.

·         By default Indexing Service is not installed on Windows 2008. Follow the steps provided through this link install it on 2008: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954822

Issue: When viewing the search results, the logo banner images do not display and instead there is a little red x.

Resolution: The scripts directory in IIS does not have read permissions. To fix this, open the IIS Management Console. Locate and right click on the Scripts directory. Select Properties from the pop-up menu. Click on the Virtual Directory tab make sure the Read option is checked.

LIMITATIONS

· When a site is built with a template that does not use thumbnails, and you switch to a template that uses thumbnails, the site must be manually rebuilt to generate thumbnails for the existing files.

· If you switch from another template to the Side by Side, Thumbnails template, you must do a Rebuild All to have the JPGs created.

· If you are using the Side by Side, Thumbnails template and you make changes such that the templates are rebuilt (e.g., change the template files or change any settings in Net-It Central like the site title that cause just the template to rebuild), the JPG files in the site are deleted. The site would need to be rebuilt.

· If you build a site using the Side by Side, Thumbnails template, there must be a valid site URL entered in the Locations tab of the Site Properties dialog box.

· For certain text-oriented formats (*.cal, *.cgm, *.906, *.907, and *.plt), the original document appears as a text file in the browser instead of being downloaded when the "Download Original Document" button is clicked. Either invoke the browser's "File/ Save As" function to save these documents, or implement the inline JavaScript method discussed below to allow right-click functionality to "Save Target As".

GETTING SUPPORT

There are many support options available to you:

· User's Guide: Net-It Central comes with several manuals (in PDF format) with detailed information on installation, use, and customization of Net-It Central (located in your installed Program files/IGC/Net-It Central/Manuals directory).

· On-Line Help: Net-It Central includes Help Topics that are accessible from the Help menu in Net-It Central. For information about using the Brava document viewers (ActiveX and Java), additional help topics are available from those Brava sessions.

· QuickStart Tutorial: Net-It Central includes a comprehensive tutorial that only takes about 20 minutes to complete. It is accessible from the Help menu in Net-It Central. A 5 minute quick look is also available through this tutorial.

· Brava Viewer Admin Guide: A reference guide Brava6.2_AdministrationGuide.pdf and Brava5.5J_AdministrationGuide.pdf are available in the Net-It Central folder. Refer to the optional parameter sections of these document ifs you require customization of any of the Brava! Viewer (activeX or Java) features to conform to your specific business environment. Note that not all Brava Viewer parameters contained in these guides (such as Publishing) are applicable for use with Net-It Central.

· Automation API Reference: A description of the Net-It Central DLAutoPublish API (enabled in the Professional Editions of Net-It Central) is available as an HTML reference in the Net-It Central folder. It is also easily accessed from the Additional Resources menu item in the Help menu of Net-It Central.

· Template Tag Reference: A description of the Net-It Central site template language is available as an HTML reference in the Net-It Central folder. It is also easily accessed from the Additional Resources menu item in the Help menu of Net-It Central.

· Web Site: The Net-It Central web site offers answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) at http://www.net-it.com/faq.asp.

· Free Initial Email Support: Registered customers of Net-It Central automatically receive free email support for 30 days from the date of purchase. Submit technical support questions by entering a Net-It Central Support WebTicket. Alternatively you can send email to support@infograph.com and include the first 8 digits of your registration number preceded by the text registration #: in the body of the email. (For example: registration #: 1234-5678) Your registration number can be found in the Help>About dialog of Net-It Central.

· Sales Support: If you are considering purchasing Net-It Central and have questions about the product, or to find out more about support options, call sales at 800-398-7005 or send email to sales@infograph.com.

EVALUATION, PURCHASE, AND UPGRADES

· An evaluation version of Net-It Central may be used for a limited time in accordance with the terms of the license provided with the Net-It Central product. The complete Net-It Central product may not be redistributed to others for evaluation purposes. To receive an evaluation copy of Net-It Central please visit the evaluation page of our web site, contact sales at 800-398-7005 or send email to sales@infograph.com.

· Net-It Central is available in multiple editions. Any edition may be upgraded to another, more powerful edition at any time. To upgrade from one edition to another, please contact sales at 800-398-7005 or send email to sales@infograph.com.

· Paid, registered customers of Net-It Central are entitled to use Net-It Central in accordance with the terms of the license agreement included with Net-It Central.

LEGAL NOTICES

Informative Graphics, the IGC logo, Net-It Central, and CentralTools are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informative Graphics Corporation. All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.