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April 2024


G. Michaels Consulting Ltd. (GMCL)


Welcome to DBDOC!

If this is your first time using DBDOC, please contact GMCL, and we will be happy to advise you over the phone, email, screen-sharing videocalls, etc. DBDOC is a powerful tool with many options and we strongly encourage you to let us guide you through configuring DBDOC for your system.

                                                                                          
                                                                                          
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Email: support@gmcl.com
Phone: 866 438-2101 Toll Free in North America
Phone: (+1) 780 438-2101 
Fax:   (+1) 780 437-3367
Web:   https://gmcl.com
We provide virtually 24x7 support coverage.
   
G. Michaels Consulting Ltd.
11211 - 76 Ave NW
Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 0K2


                                                                                          
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You can find our Help in many places, notably at our website at https://gmcl.com and from menu options in the programs you've likely now installed if you're reading this. In fact if you're reading this you likely already know that "DBDOC" is broadly split into three components, which in turn have three installers for their respective likely installation targets. You're most likely seeing this having run one such installer!

"Hyperview" is the component most users will need installed, and it can be installed without administrator privileges, though that doesn't necessarily mean the best deployment method would be for each user to run the Hyperview_Kit.exe installer. Hyperview can also be easily run from network shares or many other networked application methods you could throw at it, and it has an intranet web interface that can be set up if that ends up being nicer for your use-cases than the native Windows application.

The "BuildPlus" build system is included only in the Full DBDOC Build System Kit (aka DBDOC_Kit.exe). This is used to gather information and graphics from your system into .dbdoc files which the "Hyperview" desktop and web interfaces can navigate through (available in both DBDOC_Kit.exe and Hyperview_Kit.exe) potentially while displaying live data being gathered through the "CIUMon" data connection (in DBDOC_Kit.exe and its standalone CIUMon_Kit.exe).

You will need administrator privilege when installing the Full DBDOC Build System kit and the CIUMon kit, or to run the CIUMon online data server (well, in its simpler configurations at least; there are ways, both discoverable and as already shipped with CIUmon, for working around many specific system particularities).

You can find all the DBDOC kits 
* at https://gmcl.com/, 
* or perhaps in the "DBDOC Kits" folder of the DBDOC Installation DVD if you have one. 

If you indeed are installing from a DVD (and if you need one just let us know, though it's all also downloadable) you also have a RoviSys demo installer for their OPC90 software, which may be useful for purposes of performance or nontraditional-setup (ex. one of those newfangled ethernet CIUs if I'm remembering correctly?). Don't worry too much if you don't already know it's necessary though, we'll all figure that out while we help you through setting up this full interlocking system.


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G. Michaels Consulting Ltd., all rights reserved.
