Installing Symphony on a USB drive (aka making Symphony a green application)

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HuaiDong qiu on November 27, 2009 | Version 5

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After Symphony is successfully installed, you can copy the installation and make a change to a configure file that will allow you to:

Utilize Symphony from a USB drive, then mount the USB device and use Symphony in other machines. This is sometimes called a green application.
Have multiple versions of Symphony installed on one machine. For details on this type of setup, see the article Installing multiple versions of Symphony on one computer

Complete the following steps:

Step	Action
1	Install Symphony by following the steps in the installation guide for Windows. By default Symphony will be installed to C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Symphony.
2	If the soffice.bin process is running, use the Task Manager to end it.
3	Determine where you want to copy the Symphony installation and create a folder for it. For example, if you are going to locate it on a USB drive, you can create a folder like D:\Software. We will use this sample location in the remaining steps.
4	Copy the entire Symphony folder from its original installation directory to the new folder of your choice. For example, copy the Symphony folder from C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\ to D:\Software.
5	In the folder that you just copied, locate the file D:\Software\Symphony\framework\rcp\rcplauncher.properties. Edit this file, changing: rcp.data=${env.USERPROFILE}/IBM/Lotus/Symphony/ to rcp.data=${env.USERPROFILE}/IBM/Lotus/Symphony1.2/
6	(Optional) The user data will be created and put into the %USERPROFILE%/IBM/Lotus/Symphony1.2/ folder. If you want to preserve the user data from the original Symphony installation, you can copy the contents of directory %USERPROFILE%/IBM/Lotus/Symphony/ to %USERPROFILE%/IBM/Lotus/Symphony1.2/ Then delete dialog.xlc and script.xlc in directory %USERPROFILE%/IBM/Lotus/Symphony1.2/.sodc/user/basic
7	(Optional) In order to conveniently launch Symphony, you can create one shortcut on desktop to link to D:\Software\Symphony\symphony.exe. To do this, locate the file symphony.exe in the Windows Explorer, right-click on it and drag it onto the Windows desktop. From the pop-up menu, select Create Shortcut Here.
8	(Optional) If you only wish to use Symphony from the USB drive and not to have it on your hard drive, you can uninstall Symphony using Add/Remove Programs from the Windows Control Panel. This will remove the registry entries and MSI DB entries from the Windows system. As a result, you will not be able to double-click a document icon nor use "*Open With...*" option to open a document in Symphony. One workaround way to open document is to drag-and-drop a file icon into the main window of the running Symphony program.

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HuaiDong qiu commented on Jan 29, 2010

Installing Symphony on a USB drive (aka making Symphony a green application)

Thanks for your feedback Durand. There is a side effect if you use relative path for rcp.data property. When you open a document by double click, the "current directory" will be the directory which contains the document, so Symphony will create a workplace inside that directory.

benoit BD durand commented on Dec 31, 2009

Installing Symphony on a USB drive (aka making Symphony a green application)

1)How to force the creation of the user data folder in the Symphony file of the USB key

By following the steps of the above article, the user data is created into the %USERPROFILE%/IBM/Lotus/Symphony1.2/ folder.

Drawback: each time Symphony is launched from the USB key, the previous folder will be created in the user profile of the computer we work on. A better way would be to force the folder creation in the Symphony file of the USB key.

To do so, you must edit the file D:\Software\Symphony\framework\rcp\rcplauncher.properties (where D stands for the USB key), and change:

rcp.data=${env.USERPROFILE}/IBM/Lotus/Symphony1.2/

rcp.data=./IBM/Lotus/Symphony1.2/

2)How to avoid the creation of the Symphony shortcuts

By following the steps of the above article, each time Symphony is launched from a USB key, two shortcuts are created:

- One Symphony shortcut on the desktop

- One Symphony shortcut in ‘Program menu’

To avoid this intrusive behaviour, you must open the folder D:\Software\symphony\framework\shared\eclipse\features\com.ibm.productivity.tools.standalone.branding.feature_3.5.0.20090908-0900\win32x86 (where D stands for the USB key), then :

- Edit the file desktoplinksysmphony.properties and comment the file

- Edit the file programgrouplinksymphony.properties and comment the file

Conclusion : by applying these three changes, the behaviour of the Symphony application is not intrusive when launched from a USB key (the user data folder is created on the USB key instead of the user profile of the computer, and the two Symphony shortcuts are not created).

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