How to install CompanyGate in a network

Setting up CompanyGate in a single user environment:

If you have only have 1 computer in your home/office, simply install CompanyGate on it following the on-screen setup instructions.

The first time you run CompanyGate after installation, you will be prompted by a message box (see image below), asking you where you want to store your database. Simply select the option Local Database and click OK.

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Now you can start working with CompanyGate!

Setting up CompanyGate in a network or multi-user environment:

If you have 2 or more computer in your office, and want multiple users can access and share information on CompanyGate, then read the following information:

To set up CompanyGate in a network, you must ensure that at least one computer is installed as the sever and the rest as clients. This means that the server computer will be the one storing all the information (created, modified and saved by users on other computers) in its database.The other client computers would not save any information on their own, but would access this information from the server. So the server helps all the computers in a network to share data and information without causing any clashes in functionality.

Deciding which computer will be the server and which others will be the clients is important as once they have been specified, CompanyGate will not allow you to change them.

Thus, it is essential that when installing CompanyGate in a network, server and client computers should be seperately specified. The following steps highlight this:

STEP (A) Setting up CompanyGate on the Server computer:

  1. First, decide which computer in your network is going to act as the server. This is dependant on your convenience as well as the computer's performance (It is advisable that a computer with high performance be the server).
  2. Install your version of CompanyGate on the selected computer. Make sure that the disk drive on which you are installing CompanyGate, is accessible to the other client computers in the network.
  3. After installation, double Click the desktop icon to open your application of CompanyGate.
  4. The first time you run CompanyGate, you will be prompted by a message box (see image below), asking you where you want to store your database. Simply select the option Local Database and click OK.


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  5. Now you can start working with CompanyGate on the server computer!

STEP (B) Setting up CompanyGate on the Client computers:

  1. After installing CompanyGate on your server, the rest of the computers in your network are going to act as the clients.
  2. On each of the client computers, install your version of CompanyGate.
  3. After installation, double Click the desktop icon to open your application of CompanyGate on each of the computers.
  4. The first time you run CompanyGate, you will be prompted by a message box (see image below), asking you where you want to store your database. Select the option Server Database Path.


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  5. On selecting this option, click the Browse Button. Now navigate to the location of the CompanyGate database on the Server Computer. For example: \\servername\C:\Program Files\MedSites\CompanyGate Software\database.
  6. Click OK. Repeat the above steps for the other client computers.
  7. Now you can start working with CompanyGate efficiently in a networked environment!