User guide

Chapter Five – DiscView PRO SmartLaunch
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DiscView PRO SmartLaunch™
Introduction
DiscView PRO comes with an advanced and powerful fea-
ture, SmartLaunch, which allows nontechnical network users
to easily access CD-ROM applications. The DiscView man-
ager first configures the CD-ROMs through DiscView. Smart-
Launch is then used to create Launch Items — on which the
user clicks to run the applications or access the data found on
the CDs. The Launch Item can be configured to login auto-
matically to the fileserver to which the CD-ROM is attached,
mount the CD-ROM, and map to a network drive letter — all
invisible to the user! SmartLaunch will even dismount,
unmap, and disconnect from the server when the user exits
the application.
SmartLaunch managers are determined by rights. If you
have access to the SmartLaunch database (DISCSL.MDB), or
access to the DiscView PRO directory, then you are a
SmartLaunch manager.
You can create and manage your own database if you
are not a manager of the main database. To do this you
must add the line databasepath = pathname (where
‘pathname’ is the actual path to the new SmartLaunch
database) to the DISCSL.INI file in your Windows di-
rectory. The next time SmartLaunch runs, it will
prompt you to create a new database, if one is not found
in your path.