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  1. Follow the Windows installation instructions in the Quick Start Installation Guide: Live Forms™ in-house.
  2. You may configure  as a Windows Service. Follow the instructions below for the configuration details
  3. Continue to Database Setup for more configuration information.
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Although we recommend Tomcat 7, we realize that you may have a customized tomcat environment and just want to drop the v5.x frevvo.war into it. If it is a tomcat 6 installation, here are some tips :

  1. 5.x requires JDBC4. Tomcat 6 ships with DBCP 1.3, which is compatible with JDBC3 not 4. Update the tomcat-dbcp.jar file in your installation with the tomcat 7 version.
  2. The v5.x frevvo.war file requires a javax.transaction implementation jar in the servlet container. This file is not bundled with the war. For Tomcat installs, you can copy the jta-1.1.jar, included in the Tomcat bundle, into your tomcat/lib folder. Full J2EE containers already have the jta jar in the classpath.

 

Next Steps

Your Live Forms server installation is complete. You are now ready to create your firsts tenant, users, forms and workflows. See the documentation for creating a tenant and users.

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 (32 bit)

 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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  • Install-Service.bat file - Double click this file to install the service.
  • Configure-Service.bat - Double-click this file to edit the Shutdown/Startup mode and set both of them to Java instead of jvm if installing on a Windows x64 system. Change the name of the service if desired. See below:
  • Monitor-Service.bat - Double-click this file to monitor the bundle service.
  • Remove-Service.bat - removes the service. You may have to close the Windows Services panel and reopen it to see the change.

 will run as a Windows Service whether you are using the Development Kit (JDK)  versions 1.6 or 1.7 or Java Runtime Environment (JRE) versions 6 or 7.

  •  Refer to JDK/JRE Prerequisite for the details.
  • If you downloaded the JRE then make sure that the JRE_HOME environment variable is set to the installation directory of your JRE for example, C:\Program Files\Java\jre7. Refer to JDK/JRE Prerequisite for the details.

Follow these steps to install  as a Windows Service:

  1. Add JAVA_HOME  or JRE_HOME Home as a system Environment Variable and PATH Environment Variable with the appropriate values. Here are the steps:
    1. Right-click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select 'Properties'.
    2. Click the 'Advanced' tab. For Windows 7, it will be an Advanced system settings icon..
    3. Click the 'Environment Variables' button.
    4. Under 'System Variables', click 'New'.
      1.  If you are using the Java Development Kit
        1. Enter the variable name as JAVA_HOME
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        1. Set the variable value for JAVA_HOME to the installation directory of your JDK, for example, c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_09. Click 'OK'.
      1. If you are using the Java Runtime Environment

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            1. Enter the variable name as JRE_HOME
            2. Set the variable value for JRE_HOME to the installation directory of your JRE, for example, C:\Program Files\Java\jre7. Click 'OK'.

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      e. Locate the PATH Environment Variable. Click the Edit button and append %JAVA_HOME%\bin or %JRE_HOME%\bin to the end of path.  h

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      f. Click  Click 'OK'.

      i   g. Click 'Apply' and then 'OK' to exit.   

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      2. Navigate to the directory where the batch files are located: usually <frevvo-home>. Execute the Install-Service batch file by double clicking on it.

      3. Double-click the ConfigureThe Install-Service batch file . You can change the name of the service from frevvoforms to whatever you wish on the configuration screen that displays. EX: Frevvo Live Forms

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      4. Right click the My Computer icon. Select Manage, Services and Applications, Serviceswill put the frevvoforms service in the Services list with a manual status.

      4. Find the Services list for your operating system. The service should be listed. Start the Service.

      Warning

      Make sure that the name of the directory where you installed does not have any spaces in it.

       

      Install as a service on Windows (

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      64 bit)

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

      Make sure you have completed step 1 to configure the JDK or JRE Home environment variable and update the path as discussed above.

      1. Navigate to the directory where the batch files are located: usually <frevvo-home>. 
      2. Right click the Install-Service batch file and select Run As Administrator. Execute the batch file. The  service will be called frevvoforms but the display name can be changed when you run the Configure-Service Batch file. 

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