Client plug-in

The client plug-in (NetClient.vpg) should be installed in each VPT that is used for time tracking in the workgroup. This plug-in allows to download new projects from a server, then send the tracked data back to the server.

Copy the plug-in file into Plugins subfolder in VPT installation folder. Then restart VPT so it can load the new plug-in into memory.

The plug-in adds a new sub-menu to VPT and two toolbar buttons for its commands:

Get Project From Server allows you to load a new empty project from the shared network folder. When you choose this command, a dialog box will appear showing all available project templates created by the administrator using the server VPT plug-in:

Select a project to load and a new empty project containing all the application information (application set, billing rates, etc) will be downloaded to the workstation. You can work with this project in exactly the same manner as with any other projects you create yourself.

After you are done with the project you choose Send Project To Server command in order to move the project to the server. The project file is stored in Projects subfolder of the shared folder on the file server. A subfolder with current user name is created automatically under Projects folder where all user projects are stored.

After you've sent the project to the server, you can load another project template or even the same project you've just worked on. Next time you send the new data to the server, the project file will be saved under different name so it will not overwrite data previously stored.

However before you can use the plug-in you need to specify a network path to the file server's shared folder and the user name of the current user working with VPT. For this, go to Tools>Options menu in VPT and you'll see an extra tab in the dialog where you can specify this information: