====================================================================== Microsoft(R) Product Support Services Application Note (Text File) User Setup for Running on Windows NT(TM): ELECTRONIC FORMS DESIGNER ====================================================================== Revision Date: 3/94 1 Disk Included The following information applies to Microsoft Electronic Forms Designer, version 1.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT AND ANY SOFTWARE THAT MAY | | ACCOMPANY THIS DOCUMENT (collectively referred to as an Application | | Note) IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER | | EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED | | WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR | | PURPOSE. The user assumes the entire risk as to the accuracy and | | the use of this Application Note. 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The initial release of E-Forms includes a User Setup program and files that perform with the 16-bit MSMAIL.EXE file under Windows NT. However, in order for E-Forms to interface with MSMAIL32.EXE (the 32- bit Mail client included with Windows NT), you need to use the User Setup programs, SETUP32.EXE and MEFINST.EXE, which are included with this Application Note. Before following the steps listed below, use the Server Setup program for Electronic Forms to install the User Setup files to a shared directory on the network. For more information, see page 123 of the Electronic Forms Designer "Developer's Guide." Make sure you complete this process before continuing. To install the Setup files on the server ---------------------------------------- The administrator must complete the following steps to correctly install E-Forms Windows NT Setup files on the server: 1. Insert the enclosed WA0720 disk in your floppy disk drive. 2. At the MS-DOS command prompt, type the following and press ENTER copy drive:\*.* destination where is the floppy disk drive containing the WA0720 disk and is the drive and directory where the E-Forms User Setup executables currently reside. For example, if your existing shared E-Forms directory is located in the MAILDATA\ADDONS\EFORMS directory on drive M and the WA0720 disk is in drive A, type the following command: copy a:\*.* m:\maildata\addons\eforms A message will be displayed stating: 5 file(s) copied. This indicates that the E-Forms Windows NT Setup files have been successfully copied. To set up E-Forms on a Windows NT workstation --------------------------------------------- Each user must complete the following steps to correctly install E-Forms on his or her machine: 1. If the Windows NT workstation is using Microsoft Mail or any application that uses Microsoft Mail (such as Microsoft Schedule+, Microsoft Word, or Microsoft Excel), exit and sign out of Microsoft Mail. 2. Use File Manager to connect the workstation to the shared E-Forms directory on the network (for example, MAILDATA\ADDONS\EFORMS). 3. Double-click SETUP32.EXE in the EFORMS subdirectory. 4. When the prompt "Please enter the full path of the E-Form files..." appears, enter the path to the shared E-Forms directory on the network (for example, M:\MAILDATA\ADDONS\EFORMS). Click Continue. The standard E-Forms Setup program will run. 5. To complete the installation on the Windows NT workstation, double- click MEFINST.EXE in the EFORMS subdirectory. 6. When the dialog box "Windows NT Libraries for E-Forms" appears, verify that "Install libraries" and "Fix previously installed E- Forms" are selected. Click OK. NOTE: The "Install libraries" option copies 32-bit versions of the E-Forms library files to the SYSTEM32 directory. The "Fix previously installed E-Forms" option updates existing custom message declarations in the Registry database to interface with the new 32-bit E-Forms files. Notes - The Setup programs included with this Application Note, SETUP32.EXE and MEFINST.EXE, are exclusively designed to configure E-Forms to run on a Windows NT workstation running MSMAIL32.EXE. In order to use E-Forms with the 16-bit version of Mail under Windows NT, you should run the SETUP.EXE file included with version 3.2 of Electronic Forms Designer. - If the E-Form custom message types are defined in a SHARED.INI file on a shared extensions directory, a new SHARED32.INI file needs to be created. If a SharedExtensionDir setting is defined for Mail, the MSMAIL32.EXE file looks for a SHARED32.INI file upon start up. By default, the E-Forms Setup program creates only the SHARED.INI file. - To create a SHARED32.INI file for the MSMAIL32.EXE client, copy the existing SHARED.INI file to SHARED32.INI. Any updates to the custom message declarations in the shared files should be made to both the SHARED.INI and SHARED32.INI files. - E-Forms can be installed and configured to run with MSMAIL.EXE or MSMAIL32.EXE, but not both if Windows 3.x and Windows NT share the same directory. - When you open an E-Form, the E-Forms window may appear beneath the current window if the E-Form Cache has been turned on. To turn the cache off, you may need to modify the Registry database. For more information, see pages 137-138 of the Electronic Forms Designer "Developer's Guide."