Installing

Installing soSIMPLE Calendar

1. Before you begin, make sure you’re running a web server on your FileMaker Server, and that you’ve enabled PHP Web Publishing using the FileMaker Server admin console. Instructions for that are in the FileMaker Server Getting Started guide. It’s roughly the same for any version of FileMaker Server.

2. Run the soSIMPLE Installer. The installer you downloaded from our “Try it Now” page installs the following for you:

• It places our web service page in the FileMaker web directory
• It configures either IIS (on a Windows Server) or Apache (on a Mac) with a virtual directory pointing to the web service page. The web service should be visible at: http://<your ip address>/soSIMPLE/
• In places two new plug-ins in your AutoUpdate folder of FileMaker Server. The two plug-ins are “MBS” and “soSIMPLE”.
• It places a copy of the required databases on your desktop. You must manually upload these into FileMaker Server using the Admin Console.

3. Upload the databases from the soSIMPLE Databases folder we installed on your desktop & enable your server to use AutoUpdate plug-ins:

• Open FileMaker Server Admin Console
• Click “Upload” from the toolbar.
• (optionally) Choose “Create Subfolder”, and call it “soSIMPLE”
• Select the new folder, and click “Upload”.
• Click Desktop, then soSIMPLE Databases. You can choose both databases at once by clicking the first one, then holding the shift key and clicking the other one.
• Click Upload. Follow the wizard to open the databases
• Finally, click “Database Settings” from the left-hand panel, and check off “Allow FileMaker Pro clients to download updates automatically.” Save your changes.

4. Open FileMaker Pro from any computer on your network, and choose “Open Remote” to open the Calendar Builder database. This is where you go to test and configure new calendars.

Next step: Your First Calendar

• Downloading
• Installing
• Software Check
• Registering