WinCan VIEWER V8 Instruction Manual

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Media-Distribution

VIEWER

WinCan Video Player

Instruction manual

Version: 2.2

Date: 17.08.2011

Table of contents

1 Introduction.................................................................. 3

2 Minimum system requirements ........................................ 3

3 Data transmission.......................................................... 3

3.1 Selection of the sections to be exported ....................................................... 3

3.2 Distributing data using MediaDistribution ...................................................... 4

3.3 Burning data using an external program ....................................................... 6

3.4 Burning data using the WinCan8 burning tool ................................................ 7

4 What is WinCan VIEWER? ............................................... 8

4.1 System requirements ................................................................................. 8

4.2 Installation of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0................................................. 8

5 Launching WinCan VIEWER ............................................. 9

6 WinCan VIEWER projects ................................................ 9

7 Language Settings ....................................................... 10

8 Icons used in the grids/tables........................................ 10

9 Function overview........................................................ 11

10 Videoclips and photos................................................... 11

10.1 Displaying photos .....................................................................................11

10.2 Displaying videos ......................................................................................12

11 Icons of the symbol bar................................................ 13

12 Project on several CDs or DVDs ..................................... 13

13 Printing projects .......................................................... 13

13.1 Printing a selection of sections....................................................................14

14 ScanExplorer functionalities .......................................... 15

14.1 What is ScanExplorer? ...............................................................................15

15 WinCan Video Player .................................................... 16

15.1 Licensing the WinCan Video Player..............................................................16

15.1.1 Reading the license file................................................................................................... 16

15.2 Activating the Basic Video Player ................................................................17

16 Appendix.................................................................... 18

16.1 Launching WinCan Viewer with START parameters ........................................18

16.2 Using combinations of START parameters ....................................................19

Introduction

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1 Introduction

This user guide describes the procedure of making a WinCan8 project ready to be sent to a
final customer (engineer office, town administration etc.) in easy to handle format.

This procedure implies the following four steps:

1. Exporting the projectdatabase as well as the media files from WinCan8.

2. Distribution of the data stuff via the software WinCan8 - MediaDistribution

3. Burning of the distributed data (via MediaDistribution or an external burning software)

4. Checking the exported data in WinCan8-Viewer

2 Minimum system requirements

The following modules must be licensed and installed on the PC, which the WinCan8 project
will be distributed on:

• WinCan v8 Entry (Version 8.24.0.XXXX or higher)

• The language of the project to be exported

• WinCan8 MediaDistribution

• WinCan8 Viewer (Version 4.X.X.XX) or higher)

3 Data transmission

3.1 Selection of the sections to be exported

Open the project to be exported in WinCan8. Select the menu command Export, WinCan
Viewer Export:

ALL the sections displayed on the section table will be distributed and exported.

If there has to be exported a group of sections only, you may set filter criteria in the current
project. Click on the symbol (1) to set the criteria you like in the filter dialogue (see docu­mentation WinCan Replicator). Filtered sections can then be exported directly via the com­mand WinCan Viewer Export.

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Data transmission

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3.2 Distributing data using MediaDistribution

The software WinCan8 MediaDistribution is running directly after the exporting process. Ac­cording to the size of the WinCan8 project the amount of CDs/DVDs (1) needed is automati­cally calculated and the files put on the corresponding media are listed as shown below (1):

Besides the distribution of the project data the software is also copying the tool WinCan8-
Viewer (3) automatically on every DVD. Click on the button and check the following
settings in the dialog box shown below:

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1

The WinCanViewer always must be copied to
the distributed project using this path!

During the distribution of the data the media
name will automatically be written in the field

SI_MediaNumber1 AND copied into
SI_VCRNumber1.

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Free spac

e:

Free space:

Data transmission

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Click on button media name settings and define another name pattern for the folder that
will finally contain the distributed data.

Confirm all the name settings with a click on the green button and you will find yourself
again in the dialogue WinCan8 Media Distribution. Also click on the green button in this win­dow to distribute your project data directly to the hard disk (4):

First define the folder on the hard disk where the data finally should be written in (e.g.
D:\EXPORT) and confirm this entry with the green button in the Select directory panel (5):
now the distribution process is launched. Once this job is finished the MediaDistribution
software can be closed by clicking on YES in the dialogue shown below:

In case you want to provide the distributed project data on CD or DVD, you will have to
burn them afterwards.

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Data transmission

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3.3 Burning data using an external program

Just burn the data using exactly the same data structure the MediaDistribution has built up
before. Neither delete any folder/file nor rename one of them nor move any file into another
folder. In case you decide not to transmit some files to a final customer, you will have to
delete these before starting the distribution software.

The Mediadistribution is creating folders with the media name defined before followed by a
serial number (e.g. DVD1, DVD2, ...).

IMPORTANT: Burn the CONTENT of the folder DVD1* on the first DVD then burn the CON­TENT of the folder DVD2* on the second DVD etc. The data distributed on the hard disk
must be visible finally in the root directory of the DVD (as show in the graphic below!); oth­erwise the WinCan8 Viewer will NOT start automatically after sliding in the DVD in the drive.

HINT: Always check if the data are readable after burning before you forward the DVDs to
your customer.