Difference between revisions of "Phosco"

Latest revision as of 13:54, 31 March 2011

This is a silent installer and uninstaller for PhOScO a clinical trials Electronic Data Capture. More infos from here.

PhOScO is broken, as it was designed to be run as Administrator - so if you install it, it won't run as a normal user, but only as an Administrator - unless you correct some permissions.

This is why the installer and uninstaller are placed in separate batch files.

First the entry for packages.xml:

<package
        id="phosco"
        name="phosco Trial"
        revision="1"
        reboot="false"
        priority="0">
        <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\PhOSCo\PhOSCo\phosco-1.3-beta.jar" />
        
        <install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\PhOScO\phosco-install.bat' />
        <remove  cmd='%SOFTWARE%\PhOScO\phosco-uninstall.bat' />
        
</package>

First install PhOScO in a normal way on a workstation, to %PROGRAMFILES%\phosco. Then copy everything you installed to a location on your server. Copy also all PhOScO shortcuts (Documente und Einstellungen\All Users\Desktop - something like this, full paths).
It is best to put it on the server like this:

%SOFTWARE%\phosco\phoscofiles

and there:

Programme\phosco - a directory containing files which go to C:\Programme\phosco
Dokumente und Einstellungen - all shortcuts on the desktop etc.; you will have to change the name of this folder if you have a non-German Windows version.

This batch file - phosco-install.bat - installs PhOScO (if you use a non-German system, change "Benutzer" to a proper name in your system):

call xcopy "%SOFTWARE%\PhOScO\phoscofiles\*" c:\ /S /E /Y /Q
cacls %PROGRAMFILES%\PhOScO /T /E /P Benutzer:f >nul

This batch file - phosco-uninstall.bat - uninstalls PhOScO ("echo" at the end is used so that the script then exits with a code 0):

rd %PROGRAMFILES%\PhOScO\ /s /q
del "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\stmk.lnk"
del "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\TB.lnk"
echo