GL Wand offers you the option of upgrading the product from a location inside your corporate LAN or directly from the internet at www.excel4apps.com.

Internet option

1.    Configure the profile option called “GL Wand: Upgrade Location”

2.    Enter the single word “Internet” to perform upgrades from www.excel4apps.com

Corporate LAN option 

1.    Configure the profile option called “GL Wand: Upgrade Location” Enter something like “G:\Software\GL Wand” or \\server1\Software\GL Wand.

2.    When a new version of the GL Wand is released the GL Wand administrator should unzip the GL Wand.zip file into this folder on the corporate LAN.

3.    GL Wand clients connecting to this Oracle instance will automatically check the specified location for new versions.

4.    The user will be prompted to upgrade if a newer version is found.

Obviously the GL Wand users must have access to the path specified. If an automatic windows logon script maps a specific shared drive on each user’s PC e.g. “G:” then you can use the first example. Otherwise you will need to specify the server name in the upgrade path as shown in the second example.

The upgrade location profile option is copied to the users local PC each time they log on to an Oracle instance. The upgrade location for a specific user will therefore always reflect the GL Wand: Upgrade Location profile option of the Oracle instance that they logged on to most recently. If this profile option is modified on a specific Oracle instance the change will only be reflected on the user’s PC after the next successful logon to that instance.