eyeProfile software

[gotenks1321]

Did anyone manage to get this running in a network environment?

 

6. Using eProfile on a network

Specifying another folder for a user's work - network managers only.

 

You should not connect two different users to the same physical work folder unless you can guarantee

that only one person at a time can access the data. This would be an insecure way to work.

eProfile software is installed by default to the folder C:\program files\FSP\Version3.

 

Windows Vista does not allow data files created by the software to be lodged in the same folder as the

software. This makes sense when managing and maintaining machines. eProfile V3 uses Windows' standard data folder conventions. Unfortunately these differ between versions of Windows:

 

XP - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\FSP\Version3

Vista - C:\ProgramData\FSP\Version3

 

This is the folder referred to internally by Windows as CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA. Because it is an

all users folder you will find that different users of eProfile will be looking at the same data file on the

same computer and a single user on a network would need to use the same station each time. This

may be fine if the software is installed on a dedicated laptop that can work independently of a network.

 

It may be that you would prefer to nominate a specific network folder so that, for instance, the user can log on to any network machine and find the software, or you wish to keep data secure on the network.

 

If you need to change the folder then you can make this happen by creating a simple text file in

Notepad or similar and type in the preferred work folder, e.g. S:\USER22\FSP DATA (no final slash in

the folder name). Save this file in the default work folder (see table above) with the name

DataFolder.txt. Make sure that:

 

• you have set permissions on the folder to allow for creating and updating of data files
  
• subfolder creation is also permitted so that backups can be made.
  

 

If you wish to specify a folder that relates specifically to a network user, irrespective of which station is being used, then the user's Windows roaming data folder may be the answer. This will be useful if ease of access is a desirable. Enter roaming in the text file instead, and this will instruct eProfile to look in the user's roaming folders (referred to internally by Windows as CSIDL_APPDATA):

 

XP C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\FSP\Version3

Vista - C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\FSP\Version3

 

In the table above %USERNAME% would be replaced by the user's login name.

You should move all data files currently in the default folder to the new folder so that the user can carry on from where s/he left off.

 

Can all be found here

 

I have it working at a couple of schools and no problems so far.

[888]

There is a lot of updated info now on this page for EyeProfile, including a utility for extracting data from 2.X and feeding it into 3.0, and some more technical instructions for the software.

 

This utility sounds like what i'm needing, but it doesn't appear on the suffolk portal anymore.

Does anyone have this utility now?

[Mullaney18]

I am new to the IT sector, started about 2 months ago,

Might be old news but

I got a memo from Education Bradford with instructions on how to install the new version of EProfile (according to the suffolk website eyeProfile is now eProfile)..

 

To quote from this document given to me:

 

IMPORTANT UPDATE - Please upgrade all PCs that are using eProfile

 

Release 5 of the eProfile programme (v3.1) in now available on the Suffolk local authority website a www.suffolkcpd.co.uk/fsp

 

This new release has been prompted by the cancellation of the proposed changes to the CTF file format, there may therefore be incompatibility between eProfile and other software within your local authority when you attempt to export data.

 

Note form Suffolk CC website

Revised common transfer file specifications for the EYFSP were rolled ack after eProfile was published last September. If you are not using release 5 (March 2010) you may encounter problems when importing a CTF created from eProfile to you MIS. The eProfile download acailable on this page is the latest release. Release 5 can be installed over an earlier release of version 3,1 with out affecting your work.

 

What’s new in version 3.1

 

* Restore the name: eProfile. This may cause users to see an extra icon on the desktop once the software has been installed – both icons will connect, but you may wish to remove one.

* Assessments cover the final year of EYFSP only, but are now recorded by month rather than by half-tem. Any work you have saved using version 3 will be updated once you install version 3.1

* Some graphs and printouts have been removed. Others have been improved.

* Support for Network use has been included. See the technical notes in the guidance document.

 

Update Log:

LA support

 

I have been told that we need this from our LEA. you guys might be different..

 

I ahve alot of work to do to get all the laptops done before we break up...