Deploying a template

Before you can start testing a template you have created you must deploy it the NETLOGON folder where the DS Client is.

Clicking the "Publish to Share" will copy the template from your local repository to the Deployment servers NETLOGON\DynamicSignature folder, along with a configuration file with .ini extension and create a VBScript file to use to run this specific template.

Here you can see the configuration files for your templates. The configuration files contain setting information for each your deployed templates and is used by the DS Client Application.

Here you see the content of a template folder

And here you see the created VBScript files for running the specific templates

The content of the VBScript file

Notice the "True" parameter. It will have the script wait for the process to end, before proceeding with next line. This of cause has no real effect here since there is only one line of execution. But if you decide to run multiple signatures, you can just copy this line into another script file, along with lines from other script files. This way you can make sure that the DS Client will run nicely in sequence, instead of all running at the same time.

Example:

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

objShell.Run "\\company.local\NETLOGON\DynamicSignature\DSClient\DynamicSignature.exe /I:Adoc.ini" ,,True

objShell.Run "\\company.local\NETLOGON\DynamicSignature\DSClient\DynamicSignature.exe /I:Alexei.ini" ,,True

You can also use BAT files if you are more comfortable with that.

Then just copy the call inside the quotes into the BAT file:

\\company.local\NETLOGON\DynamicSignature\DSClient\DynamicSignature.exe /I:Alexei.ini

Going Live

When you have done testing the template that you have developed and want to put it into production, you should remember to Disable the Action Progress Window.

The users will not need to see this, and it will speed up a lot. For testing purposes, it was necessary to add a lot of artificial pauses.  Without these pauses you would not be able to see what happens.

When you disable the progress windows all the pauses will be removed, and generation time will go down to approx 1 sec.

Go to the "Template Configuration Settings" and find the "ShowProgress" parameter. Set it false.