MASTERCOM

My WebSites

User/Installation Guide

(August/2008)

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MASTERCOM Consulting Ltd.

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My WebSites Installation Guide

4th

Edition (August/2008)

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

My WebSites 2

My WebSites – Preferences 5

My WebSites - Change Signin Password 6

My WebSites – Add a New Website 7

Installing a User 9

Installation – My WebSites Shortcuts 14

Errors 15

Before Installing Other Users 16

One MyLinks.fil File For All Users 17

Managing Users Remotely 18

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Introduction

With MASTERCOM’s “My WebSites” web site access is effortless because the user does not have to remember

usernames and passwords.

Users can easily update passwords when they need to be changed. Gone is the frustration of trying to

remember usernames and passwords. Logging into a web site is now quick and easy to get the information

one needs to do their job.

With MASTERCOM’s My WeSites software, one selects a web site from a drop list, Microsoft Internet

Explorer is automatically invoked and then ‘My WebSite Login‘ is selected in the Links bar to automatically

login.

Note: P& C insurance brokers will find this automatic log in a real time saver. Anybody with member-only

web sites will find this software invaluable.

Support includes updates posted on MASTERCOM Consulting Ltd. web page www.mastercom.com.

Problem reporting is via e-mail to “support@mastercom.com” with telephone support at 416-236-1493. MASTERCOM‘s My WebSites software requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater.

The My WebSites software can be configured to allow the users to update their own list of web sites or have

their web sites updated remotely by an Administrator. A special case allows for all users to use the same web

sites with the same passwords located on a server.

Minimum Requirements

- Processor : Intel Pentium class, 2.00GHz or higher

- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP Professional/Vista Business

- Minimum RAM Requirements: 512 MB

- Display Video: 800×600, 256 colours

The Microsoft .NET Framework 2 is required to run the MASTERCOM’s My WebSites programs. The .NET

Framework software comes preloaded on Windows 2000/XP, Windows Vista systems. Windows systems should

have this software installed as part of the “Windows Update”.

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My WebSites

My WebSites is loaded as part of the startup.

To view your license click the Open icon

If the Yes,Go checkbox is checked, Internet Explorer will be automatically invoked when a web site is

selected from the drop down list, otherwise click Go.

If the Signin Required checkbox has been checked in My WebSites Preferences dialog box, then a My

WebSites sign in dialog box is displayed, as shown below, for the user to type in a password to continue.

This signin is required only once for a My WebSites session. This signin will protect your web sites from

someone walking up to your terminal. You must remember to close My WebSites if you leave your

terminal unattended.

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My WebSites

Before clicking the My WebSite Login link ensure the cursor is positioned in the userid field. Most web

sites automatically position the cursor in the userid field. When the My WebSite Login link is clicked a

MASTERCOM Automatic Website Login box is displayed to remind you of the web site that was

selected. The username and password are then automatically inserted in the respective fields and you are

logged in.

If you get a “File Download – Security Warning” then click the “Run” button and follow the

instructions on the next page to “Always run software from “MASTERCOM Consulting Ltd.”

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My WebSites

Click the More Options button.

Select the “Always run software from “MASTERCOM Consulting Ltd.” option

and click the Run button.

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My WebSites - Preferences

To specify the path for Microsoft Internet Explorer select the yellow UPDATE button and then the

Preferences button. Presently Firefox cannot be used as it does not support a link program. Check the Signin

Required checkbox to require a signin to access your file of web sites. Warning: Once this is checked and

the OK button has been selected you cannot deactivate the Signin Required as this a security feature to

prevent someone getting on your PC and changing the signin requirement.

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My WebSites - Change Signin Password

If the user wishes to change their signin password specify the present password and click the Change

Password button.

The following dialog box is displayed for the user to change the password.

To specify a new password, click the Change Password button, type in new password in the New

Password: field and in the Again to Confirm: field and then select the Change Now! button. This button

will turn red when you enter the “Again to Confirm:” field as reminder that the button should be clicked to

complete the action. Select the Exit button to exit.

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My WebSites – Add a New Website

To add a web site: (e.g. Wawanesa Broker Site - https://www.wawanesabroker.com/login.asp)

1) Click the yellow UPDATE icon

2) Click the Add a New Website button.

3) Click the Pick a Category drop-down list and select a category to group the new website with like

web sites. To add a new category click the Add button uder the “Assign a Category” drop-down text

box.

4) Type “Wawanesa Broker Site” in the Name: field.

5) Type or copy the URL into the Address: field.

6) Click the Add New button.

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My WebSites – Add a New Website

8) Click the Yes checkbox to specify that this is a login web site.

9) Specify the login username in the Userid: field and the password in the Password: field.

Note: For the greatest security, if you want to type in the password yourself, then leave the password

field blank and you will then be left in the password field to continue the login.

10) Select the number of tabs to move from the userid field to the password field. For the majority of web

sites the value is one tab.

11) The Save Changes button turns red as a reminder to save any changes. Remember to click the Save

Changes button if it turns red. Select the Exit button to exit.

If the login is an “Enter Network Password” dialog box, as illustrated below, check the Connect To..

Dialog Box checkbox.

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Installing a User

The setup program, setupcli.exe, guides you through the My WebSites installation process by prompting

you for information and automatically determining your system configuration.

When installing the My WebSites software, you may need administrative privileges.

Note: Your Microsoft Internet Explorer must be Version 6.0 or greater.

As illustrated below:

1) On the server make a folder of e.g. \MyWebSites in the folder you share out for 3rd

party applications.

2) In that folder put your license files.

3) Create a folder for each user who will be using the My WebSites Automatic Web Login software.

4) Put the MASTERCOM setupcli.exe installation file in each of the user’s folder.

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Installing a User

5) On the user’s PC explore to the mapped drive for for 3rd

party applications and then to the user’s folder

in the “MyWebSites” folder, as shown below.

5) Double click the setupcli.exe to start up the installation.

6) Select the Run button to continue with the installation.

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Installing a User

Select the Next button to continue with the installation.

After reading and agreeing to the license agreement, select I accept … and the Next button to

continue with the installation.

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Installing a User

Fill in your name, company and your product identification number and then the Next button.

Select the Next button to continue with the installation.

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Installing a First User

Select the Finish button to complete this part of the installation.

The My Websites installation defaults the user to updating his/her own web sites. This is the normal

installation option. If you wish to configure the user later you can explore to \Program Files\MyWebSites

and run ConfigureClient.exe program.

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Installation – My WebSites Shortcuts

As part of the installation:

1- a My WebSites icon is put on the desktop, as shown below.

2- a My WebSites shortcut is put in the “Startup” folder

3- a My WebSites Login is put in Internet Explorer’s Links bar, as shown below.

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Errors

If you get the following “Signin-Exception”

then the registry entry of in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\ MyWebSites with the “String

Value” of Signin and value of “N”, as shown below, was not created. Create this entry manually or

reinstall the software giving the user administrative privileges.

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Before Installing Other Users

After you have installed the first user, you should update that user with all the web sites that all users will

be using. When the web sites have been tested, copy the myLinks.fil and myWebCategories.fil from the

installed ..\Database folder to the \MyWebSites folder on the server.

As illustrated below, when the setupcli.exe installation finishes the Configure User dialog box provides

the option to copy the myLinks.fil and myWebCategories.fil from the \MyWebSites folder to the

installed user’s folder.

After the installation you can still configure the user by exploring to the ..\Program Files\MyWebSites

folder and running the ConfigureClient.exe program.

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One MyLinks.fil File For All Users

One MyLinks.fil and MyWebCategories.fil on the Server If the installation is the special case where all users would use the same login to all web sites, the updates

would made by a user, designated as the Administrator, who would have the update enabled on his/her

installation of My WebSites software. He/She would do updates on their copy of the myLinks.fil and

myWebCategories.fil files. These files then would then be copied from this user’s ..\Database folder to

the \MyWebSites folder.

For all other users the Client uses the server’s ‘mylinks.fil’ file’s Yes/No checkbox would be checked on,

as shown below.

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Managing Users Remotely

Users can be managed remotely by downloading setupadm.exe from MASTERCOM’s web site the

installing it on your computer.

In the My WebSites Admin 3.0 program folder select the Manage Users program-item to display the

following dialog box to manage the users’ links files.

A userList.txt file holds the users to be managed by the “Manage Users” program. Before a user can be managed,

the user’s MyWebSites’s folder on the server must be added to the userList.txt file.

1) To add a user, click the Add a User button and browse and select a user’s folder e.g. Cathy as shown

below.

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Managing Users Remotely

2) In the dialog box, type in the user’s name and telephone extension to identify who owns the folder

and the telephone to contact that person, if you wish, when you are working on his/her mylinks.fil file.

3) Select the OK button to add the user to the userlist.

3) The Save List button turns red to remind you to click the Save List button.

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Managing Users Remotely

If the “MyWebSites” folder is not mapped then select the Network node and browse to the user’s

“MyWebsites” folder, as illustrated below.

Select the OK button and then fill in the user’s name etc. and click OK button to add the user to the list, as

shown below.

To update a user’s file double-click the user or click the user and then click the Edit User’s Links File button.

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Managing Users Remotely

If the user’s path is UNC, then a map command is executed to map the drive letter to the user’s folder. A

command window is opened, as shown below, to show the mapping command and whether it was completed

successfully. You would then press any key, i.e. <Enter> to continue.

The My WebSites update program is automatically loaded for you to update/add web sites to the user’s links file.

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Notes