Signifikant Web Viewer may also be distributed as a standalone version; application and data in one deploy package. This edition is called Anytime for the time being. The application used to consume the offline information is the same as the web viewer used on Internet servers. This also means that the same functions, customization and profiling will be available when end users starting the offline application, as to Internet users navigate to a customer site. AnyTime uses a light weight version of IIS and a SqlServer, already contained in the installer. To index Pdf document files an Adobe component is installed if required. The publication type DVD Offline is used to compile a package with installer and data bundled together. It will then be complete and ready to be distributed to end users.
Use case
We have implemented a few use cases;
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The editor defines a publication in its repository; publication type is DVDOffline. The output will be compiled from 1) a prepared installation package for the Anytime Offline application and 2) all the data selected in the publication.
Once it is published the publication output is ready to be distributed to customers. The name DVD is a bit misleading, since customers are known to use other medias aswell; i.e. a USB memory stick is used sometimes when the publication exceeds the capacity of a DVD record.
For information how to create a smaller publication, possible to download from Internet, refer "Empty publication" below.
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The editor can create a synchronize publication. It is only the data part and it will be uploaded to a remote server, given a name that is used to match a DVD Offline publication with a synchronize publication. Once it is published and uploaded to the assigned server, the data will be available for download to users.
Create an empty publication to reduce distribution load
The DVD Offline publication may be created with a minimum of data to reduce the disk size. Thus it will be easier to distribute the DVD Offline application on Internet. Obviously it must be accompanied by a synchronization publication for the bulk of the data.
For a simpler download we still lack a generator to create a self-extracting archive, where one file will contain the full installation. This is only usable with the empty publication.
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How much disk space will the AnyTime installation consume? Prepare for 100 Mbyte for application and sufficient in addition to store all document and image files contained in a publish data set. The total may be as little as 100 Mbyte, and as much as 10 GByte or more depending on the client's amount of data.
Performance
Expect the application to provide instant access to data. There is an initial cost to create text index from the database, payed every time the application is started and the user searches for information.
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Customer profiling of the web application is used here as well and is maintained throughout the process to generate a DVD Offline publication. It is installed with the application.
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