6 Setting up SuperOffice Travel
Setting up SuperOffice Travel in Oracle 7.3 environment is done in 3 steps:

  • Prepare SuperOffice to use Travel
  • Install and generating a update prototype
  • Install SuperOffice Travel on the clients

6.1 Prepare SuperOffice to use Travel.
Check type of travel database
SuperOffice administrator or any user at user level zero can use SQL*Plus to check which type of travel database you are going to use.

You can check which type of travel database is use by typing the following statement in SQL select databasetype from so.travelcurrent. If the result of query is 1 then you have to update databasetype by typing the following statement in SQL*Plus update so.travelcurrent set databasetype = 2

Activate travel option
Log on to SuperOffice as a user with userlevel = 0 and select Preferences from the Maintenance. Activate the checkbox ?Allow use of SuperOffice Travel?. Then press OK to save this option.

Enter the employee dialog by selecting Employees from the Maintenance menu. All users that shall have the possibility to run Travel must have the Travel checkbox active. Set the checkbox ?Travel? active for all users that are going to have permissions to use Travel and click ?Save?
For more information on this subject, use the ?SuperOffice user guide? [3].

Setting up area file
Setting up area file done in 3 steps

  1. 1. Delete Area.db from SO_ARC/TEMPLATE/TRAVEL from your hard disk

  2. 2. Copy SUPEROF4.DA_ from SO_ARC/DATA/ either from CD or disk 2 to SO_ARC/TEMPLATE/TRAVEL in your hard disk.

  3. 3. Decompress SUPEROF4.DA_ to AREA.DAT by using expand command which is on disk 6 or directory instutil on CD.

6.2 Install SuperOffice Travel on the clients.
Now you have to perform the travel installation on every machine that is going to use SuperOffice Travel. To do this run setup.exe from the SOWRKSTN directory (in this example: S:\SUPEROFF\SOWRKSTN\SETUP.EXE). Select the SuperOffice Travel button when prompted for type of workstation installation.

Follow the instructions on the screen to finish the travel installation.

Before you start the superoffice you have to edit super0f4.ini file.

    Note: Remove the following statement "local_datapath=ODBC:SuperOfficeLocal"
    from superoffice initialization file superof4.ini

The user should always have only one SuperOffice-icon on his computer. On a travel machine make sure that there are only one icon available for the user and that this icon loads superof4.exe from the local hard-disk (c:\superoff\superof4.exe).

For more information on installing SuperOffice Travel see "SuperOffice User?sguide"[3].