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 provides a bundle that includes Tomcat version 7.0.35 and has the web application, the database connector web application and the Google connector web application pre-deployed and pre-configured. The bundle works on Windows, Linux and Mac systems without any further configuration. If you are evaluating , we strongly recommend the bundle.

You may have already performed the steps The Windows installation instructions are described in the Quick Start Installation Guide: Live Forms™ in-house to register for a account, download the software and generate a 30 day trial license for evaluation purposes. If you need to do this, click here and follow the instructions to quickly configure on a Windows system. When the registration and configuration are completed, and you have added a tenant and a non-admin user, you can setup Forms and Workflows as described below. It will be helpful to have these additional roles and users already created, if you want to try the tutorials during your evaluation.

You may choose to install as a Windows Service. Follow the instructions below for the configuration details. Continue to Database Setup for more configuration information. 

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Setup for Forms and Workflows

  1. Login to  as the tenant admin.
  2. On the page that is displayed, click the "Manage Roles" link.
  3. There are four default roles listed, frevvo.Designer, frevvo.Editor, frevvo.Publisher and frevvo.ReadOnly.
  4. Click the  icon, fill in the form and submit it to create new roles. Minimally create Employee, Manager and HR roles, if you are planning on trying some of the  Tutorials and Webinars.Employee On Boarding Tutorial
  5. Click the 'Back to Manage Tenant" link.
  6. On the page that is displayed, click the "Manage Users" link.
  7. There is a single user (the administrative user you defined when you created the tenant). By default, only users beginning with the letter A are displayed. Note that you will have to click the link to display All users.
  8. To add more users, click the  icon, fill in the form and submit it. Assign roles to the user as desired. Note that you must assign the frevvo.Designer role to any users who wish to design forms.
  9. Create as many users and assign them roles as needed. If you want to try the Employee On Boarding Tutorial, you will need a designer user who can create forms/flows, a user that does not have an assigned role, a user with the Manager Role and a user with the role of HR.
  10. Logout of the tenant admin account.
  11. Login as one of the newly created users with the frevvo.Designer role by filling in the User, Password and Tenant fields. Start building forms and workflows immediately.

You can find examples on creating your own workflows on the Tutorials and Webinars page.

Installing as Windows Service

 can be installed and started/stopped as a Windows Service. Batch files provided in the <frevvo-home> directory can install, configure and monitor the  service: 

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4. Right click the My Computer icon. Select Manage, Services and Applications, Services. The service should be listed.

Install as a service on Windows (x64)

If you want to install  as a service on a x64 installation of Windows , you will need to perform these steps.  

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7. Now try to start the service. Check the frevvoforms-stderr.YYYY-MM-DD,log,  frevvoforms-stdout.YYYY-MM-DD.log, common-daemon.YYYY-MM-DD.log files located in <frevvo-home>/tomcat/logs and the Windows System Event log if the service does not start. See below for some troubleshooting tips.

Live Forms fails to install/start as windows service

Running c:\frevvo\Install Service fails to install the  service and fails to run as a windows service. Make sure the %JAVA_HOME%/bin is added to the system PATH Environment Variable.

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 If you see the error message shown when starting the service on an x64 install,  make sure the Startup/Shutdown mode was changed from jvm to java. See above for the details.

Windows Binaries

Previous versions of the Windows binaries (executables and dlls) found in the <frevvo-home>/tomcat/bin folder were built for x86 (32-bit) architectures and will not work on a x64 architecture (64-bits). We are now bundling the tomcat version 7.0.35 binaries for the three architectures inside <frevvo-home>/tomcat/bin folders:  <frevvo-home>\tomcat\bin\x64,  <frevvo-home>\tomcat\bin\i64 and  <frevvo-home>\tomcat\bin\x86.

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  • Replace tomcat7.exe, tomcat7w.exe and tcnative-1.dll found in <frevvo-home>/tomcat/bin with the ones found in <frevvo-home>/tomcat/bin/x64 (for 64-bit architectures) or the ones found in <frevvo-home>/tomcat/bin/i64 (for Itanium 64-bit architectures).

frevvo.war

The  application frevvo.war now runs directly from the war file. This means that frevvo.war no longer expands its contents into <frevvo-home>\tomcat\temp or <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps\frevvo. Tomcat still does create a temp folder, for example <frevvo-home>\tomcat\temp\0-frevvo (the actual folder depends on where java.io.tmpdir is pointing to) to store form/flow cached html and other temporary files.

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