QuickReadMe
By QuickIntranet.com
HelpDesk: Version 2.5
Date 12-21-03
http://www.quickintranet.com
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*You will be required to change some things in the .php files within this program, you can use ether Notepad, or any HTML editor
Create ODBC link.
Go to Control Panel
Go to Administrative Tools
Go to Data Sources (ODBC)
Click on "System DSN" tab
Click on "Add" button
Select "Driver do Microsoft Access (*.mdb)
Under Data Source Name enter: helpdesk
Click Select
Find the database on your computer for the helpdesk
\helpdesk\datasources\helpdesk.mdb
Highlight the database so its name appears under Database Name
Click "ok" until your back to control panel.
Close Control Panel.
Other Settings
Navigate to \helpdesk\datasources\helpdesk.mdb
Make sure that everyone has write permissions to the database! (if you dont
do this many problems will follow)
Open the M.S. Access Database.
Open accounts table
Enter the Adminitrative Users Information. These people will be able to use
the help desk system.
*If for some reason you did change the help desk file structure you will need
to change the field "HelpDeskAddress" for each account to mach your
new directory structure.
Close accounts Table
Open inventory Table
*The Help Desk System does best with a list of your Network
users and their computer names. This Is not required, but you should consider
importing the data.
Close Database.
Surf to helpdesk/default.htm You should now be able to use the help desk system.
Other considerations:
reportproblem.htm has a list of support problems in a menu, you can edit this
list in any html editor.
*Once in the Help Desk managment area you will notice a link to Intranet Search
Engine Managment. This link will not
work as it was specific to our system, later versions of this help desk software
will not contain said link.
If you want to use the Security Changes page, you will have to put your staff
into the menus on sectracker.htm. Or implenent
a funtion that pulls menu lists from a database.
Testing:
This software has been tested on a Windows2003 server with IIS 6 and PHP.This
software has been tested on a Windows2000 server with IIS and PHP.
This software has been tested on a Windows NT4 server with IPlanet Web server
and PHP.
Bugs:
There are some bugs in this software, none which could have negative impact
on a system.
Report problems, comments etc to rainmakerpsi@yahoo.com