Profile Generation
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2006, R. James Holton. All rights reserved.
ESS uses JavaScript profiles to provide site specific information to the Report and Audit front-end HTML. Information from the XML configuration files and from the database control tables(e.g., expense types, payment methods, departments) is accessed to create the JavaScript profiles. This means that when control tables are changed, or you change a configuration element, new profiles need to be generated.
If you have used one of the installers that Adisoft, Inc. provides, the links to generate a new profile are found in your ConfigurationInfo.txt file. This file is found in the ESS installation folder. Under Windows, the ConfigurationInfo.txt file is also available via the “start” menu. If your system was manually installed, you need to contruct the links are follows:
ESS Profile: http://{app-server-URL}/ess-app/ess/ESSProfile.jsp?database={connection string}folder={ess htdocs}
Audit Profile: http://{app-server-URL}/ess-app/ess/ESSProfile.jsp?database={connection string}folder={ess htdocs}
Where:
{app-server-URL} = URL of application server.
{connection string} = database connection string. See your web.xml file.
{ess htdocs} = the ess folder under your Web server. Be sure to include a “/” at the end of this string.
To generate a JavaScript profile, execute the link. You will be prompted for an login and password. Enter your email address and password for the ESS system. In order to run either the ESS profile generation or Audit profile generation, your email address needs to be in the security.xml file as a user element under the generateprofile element.
You need to generate both the ESS profile and the Audit profile to propagate any changes to the ESS configuration and control tables to your users.
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