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PDF-ShellTools => General => Topic started by: chrisrace on March 16, 2023, 07:28:50 PM

Title: Company Installation
Post by: chrisrace on March 16, 2023, 07:28:50 PM

Hello, is there a way that I can install this throughout our company so that each one has our 'scripts' built in / can be managed globally?
Thanks
Chris

Title: Re: Company Installation
Post by: RTT on March 17, 2023, 03:43:13 AM

You may automate the installer as explained in this Silent Command Line Install of PDFShellTools (https://www.rttsoftware.com/forum/index.php?topic=651.0) forum thread but, currently, there is no easy way to also add custom metadata properties.
Easy to do it manually from the manager settings backup/restore functionality, that will include the scripts and custom properties definition.
(https://www.rttsoftware.com/Manuals/ST/English/images/ManagerSettingsBtn.png)
I need to add the possibility to restore settings at installation time, with a installer command line parameter.

Meanwhile, you may do it like this:
1 - Create the installation folder, usually "C:\Program Files (x86)\PDF-ShellTools"
2 - Copy the PDFShellTools.propdesc and lkey.dat files to that folder, from the test PC.
3 - Create the program data folder under the user roaming profile, C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\PDF-ShellTools or %appdata%\PDF-ShellTools
4 - Copy there the MyScripts.dat named file, from the test PC equivalent folder.
5 - Import into the the user Windows registry the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PDFShellTools key, previously exported from the test PC.
6 - Run the installer, specifying the parameters /SILENT /PASSWORD=password