PAWA Offline - Installation on client computer

Owned by Jean-François Lanoue
Last updated: Jul 29, 2020 by Dominic Blouin
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Requirement

To be able to use the offline mode you will need to :

  1. Use PAWA CRM orPAWA Analytics.

  2. Have Windows PC or Tablette running Windows 10

  3. Have the credentials of a local admin of your machine

  4. Have the credentials of an admin in PAWA

  5. Uninstall SQL Native Client 2012 if it’s already installed on the machine

Download PAWA Offline

If it’s the case, you will notice on your left menu under “Administration” the menu “Offline App”

Installation

Here are the two ways to install PAWA offline :

  1. Using the User Interface

  2. Using the command line utility

 

Installation from the User Interface

  1. Download PAWA.Offline.exe  and double click on it

  2. If you get this error message, click on More Info

 

3. And Run anyway

4. Complete the form and click OK

 

Once the setup is completed, access this URL: http://localhost:7293/ using Google Chrome.  See synchronization section  

Installation with the commande line

Copy PAWA.Offline.exe on the target computer.  Suggested directory: C:\temp

  • **Don’t forget to run command line in admin mode.

     

Here is the list of argument currently available

Arguments

Description

-install

Install PAWA offline

-uninstall

Uninstall PAWA offline.  This action will delete the application and the local database.

-reinstall

Reinstall PAWA offline.  Note, if you already uninstall PAWA you will need to use the install argument if you need a reinstallation

-quiet

Please put this if you remotely install PAWA on a command line.  If you don’t add this argument an UI will be open if an error occurred

-serverurl

This is your PAWA URL domain.  Don’t forget to add “https://” at the beginning an “/” at the end.

-username

Admin username

-password

Admin password

-registerto

Username of the final user

 

To install:

C:\temp>PAWA.offline.exe -install -serverurl https://yourdomain.pawa.zone/ -username admin@pawa.zone -password theadminpassword -registerto username@domainname.com -quiet

Once the setup is completed, access this URL: http://localhost:7293/ using Google Chrome.  See synchronization section  

 

To uninstall:

C:\temp>PAWA.offline.exe -uninstall

 

To reinstall:

C:\temp>PAWA.offline.exe -reinstall -serverurl https://yourdomain.pawa.zone/ -username admin@pawa.zone -password theadminpassword -registerto username@domainname.com -quiet

 

Installation issue

If you see that the page PAWA is still showing “Installation in Progress” after 20 minutes. You may need to reboot.

If you keep seeing this message after a reboot, you may need to check the SQL log. It means that SQL is not able to be install by itself. You can also make sure that a SQL Native Client 2012 is not already install on the machine. If you you will need to unistall in the add remove programs to be able to install PAWA: