Installation

Printer driver

The OL Connect Send Printer Driver must be installed on a dedicated machine and a Windows printer must be set up using this driver. Additionally several settings regarding the host for sending print jobs have to be set. All this is done with the Printer Driver installer; see Installing OL Connect Send Printer Driver.

Any OL Connect Send Printer Driver with a version number less than 1.0.5 should be uninstalled before installing the newest Printer Driver.

  1. Open the Windows Control Panel and click Programs and Features.

  2. Select OL Connect Send Printer Driver and click Uninstall.

Workflow Plugins

The set of plugins is installed automatically with Workflow 8.6 and up.
However, if you have already installed the pre-released plugins in Workflow 8.5, these plugins must first be uninstalled, before updating to Workflow 8.6 and up. Please follow these steps:

  1. Make a backup of the Connect Send database.
    Uninstalling OLCS plugins will also remove the database (OLCSDB.script) with all the job information collected until that date. The database, however, can be retained by making a copy before it is uninstalled and then copying it back after the new installation.
    1. Copy the content found in %programdata%\objectif lune\cpd\ to a safe place. Do not copy any of the other sub folders found under %programdata%\objectif lune\.
  2. Uninstall the OLCS plugins:
    1. Open the Windows Control Panel and click Programs and Features.
    2. Select OL Connect Send plugin and click Uninstall.
  3. Uninstall any previously installed OL Connect Send printers.
  4. Proceed with the Workflow 2023.1 update.
  5. Copy the database back to %programdata%\objectif lune\cpd\.

Connect Send database cleanup service

A cleanup mechanism in the OLCSService service and in the Job Processor plugin prevent excessive growth of the Connect Send database. There are no settings to make for these mechanisms, except that you could change the default number of days to keep history of transactions. This influences the output of the Get Data plugin (see Get Data plugin).

By default, the minimal number of days to keep history of transactions is 60.
To change this:

  1. Create a olcs.properties file in C:\ProgramData\Objectif Lune\CPD\App\.
  2. Open the file and set the safety-buffer-days property to the desired number of days; for example:
    safety-buffer-days=75

Moving Workflow to another machine

When moving Workflow to a different machine, it s important to move the OL Connect Send database (OLCSDB.script) to the other machine as well. The database includes all job information collected to date.

  1. Make a backup of the Connect Send database: copy the content found in %programdata%\objectif lune\cpd\ to a safe place. Do not copy any of the other sub folders found under %programdata%\objectif lune\.
  2. After installing Workflow on the other machine, copy the database back to %programdata%\objectif lune\cpd\.