Installing Employee Earnings History 1.5

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1 Installing Employee Earnings History 1.5 Contents Introduction Special Considerations Gather Required Information Files Included with this Release Installing Employee Earnings History for the First Time o Install Files on the Web Server o Configure the HP3000 o Test the Installation o Put Employee Earnings History into Production Updating Employee Earnings History from a Previous Release o Install Files on the Web Server Additional Documentation Contacting SBCTC-ITD for Assistance Introduction Employee Earnings History allows your employees to view information about their earnings history and leave balances using the World Wide Web. This document describes how to install Employee Earnings History, release 1.5. Special Considerations Employee Earnings History is dependent on the following the SBCTC-ITD Web Transaction Server being installed. Gather Required Information Before you begin this procedure, you must gather some information about your Web server. During the installation, you may be asked to provide the following information: Server Installation Type The type of Web server that you are installing Employee Earnings History on. Options include: o An NT server located on your campus o A Unix server located on your campus o The aurora Web server located at SBCTC-ITD (

2 HTML File Extension The type of HTML file extension you are using, either.htm or.html. College Code The college code for your institution, for example, 011. Domain Name Server The domain name of your Web server, for example, Application URL The URL to the directory where the Employee Earnings History HTML files are located, for example, Secure Server Whether Employee Earnings History is being installed on a secure server (SSL). Options include either Yes or No. Rqserver Location The URL and name of the Web Transaction Server CGI program. This program resides in the CGI directory on your Web server, for example, o For most Unix systems, OR o For NT most systems, OR For most multi-district colleges and colleges using the aurora Web server (where nnn is your college code), Files Included with this Release The following files are included with this release (files noted in bold have been changed since Employee Earnings History, release 1.4): File Name blank.html index.html install.html earnhist.cfg waci400.html waci401a.html waci401b.html waci401c.html Description Blank Screen Open Employee Earnings History These Installation Instructions Installation Configuration Template Employee Earnings History Login List of Checks Earnings, Deductions, and Contributions Employee Name

3 waci402.html waci403.html waci404.html waci408.html waci499.html Current Year-to-Date Balances Previous Year-to-Date Balances Leave Balances Employee PIN Change Logout Installing Employee Earnings History for the First Time If you are installing Employee Earnings History for the first time, you must: Install the files on the Web server. Configure the HP3000 to run Employee Earnings History. Test the installation. Put Employee Earnings History into production. Install Files on the Web Server This section walks you through the process of installing Employee Earnings History on your campus's Web server for the first time. If you have already installed Employee Earnings History release 1.4, skip this section and perform only the steps under Updating Employee Earnings History from a Previous Release. 1. Download the InstallShield program for Employee Earnings History by clicking EarningsHistory-1-5.exe; save the file on your PC. 2. On your PC using Windows Explorer, locate and open the downloaded file EarningsHistory-1-5.exe. When the InstallShield program starts, answer the questions about your college's Web server. The InstallShield program expands the Employee Earnings History HTML and CFG files and customizes them for your college. 3. On your Web server, build a new directory to store the Employee Earnings History files. SBCTC-ITD recommends you name the directory /earnhist/. If you currently have the Student Web Access application installed, the best position for the /earnhist/ directory is at the same level as the directory containing that application. Verify that the permissions on the directory are correct. At a minimum, it should allow Read access for all viewers of the Employee Earnings History pages. 4. On your PC, locate the Employee Earnings History installation directory. The default installation directory is C:/Program Files/CIS/Earnings History

4 5. Copy the files included with this release (except earnhist.cfg, install.html, and uninst.isu) from the Employee Earnings History installation directory on your PC to the /earnhist/ directory on your Web server. You can use any software that allows you to copy files (for example, Windows Explorer or FTP). Copy the HTML files to the /earnhist/ directory as ASCII. Verify that the permissions on the files are correct. At a minimum, they should allow Read access for all viewers of the Employee Earnings History pages. Configure the HP3000 This section walks you through the process of configuring the HP3000 for use with Employee Earnings History. 1. Log on to your HP3000 using a login to the Pnnn account (where nnn is your college code). To log on, you can use any terminal emulator, for example, Minisoft or Reflection. 2. Modify the Web Transaction Server Configuration file ZX0710S.DATA. In the file ZX0710S.DATA, add or change the following configuration settings for Employee Earnings History. You can use any text editor to modify this file, for example, Edit/3000. To easily find these new settings later, you may want to group them with similar configuration settings. Add or change the following lines: EnablePayHist 1 This parameter enables Employee Earnings History. EnableEmpPinChg 1 This parameter enables the Employee PIN Change function. PayHistoryURL This parameter identifies the URL for Employee Earnings History. Replace the sample URL with the URL for your site. TicketList I1,900;S1,900;E1,300 This parameter identifies the valid Ticket Types and time-out interval for each type. If not already included in the TicketList, add Ticket Type E1,300 to this parameter line. Do not delete or change any other Ticket Types. 3. On your HP3000, start the Web Transaction Server Job (ZX0700J). This will put into effect your changes to the configuration file ZX0710S.DATA. If the ZX0700J job is currently running, first stop it by scheduling the Web Transaction

5 Server Halt (ZX0730J) job. Then schedule ZX0700J to start again. You can schedule both of these jobs with an Execution Time of I (immediate). Test the Installation This section provides information about testing the Employee Earnings History installation. 1. Check with your college's Business Office to see if they have set up the necessary information for Employee Earning History. Setup Information can be found on the SBCTC-ITD Web site, PPMS Employee Earnings History. 2. Using a Web browser, display the Employee Earnings History Login page; for example, go to the URL Put Employee Earnings History into Production This section provides information about putting Employee Earnings History into production by making it available to your employees. Put the application into production by either distributing the URL to Employee Earnings to your college employees - OR - by adding a link from one of your college's Web pages to the Employee Earnings History Login page, waci400.html. Updating Employee Earnings History from a Previous Release To update the application to this release, you must install the files on the Web server. Install Files on the Web Server This section walks you through the process of updating Employee Earnings History for this release. If you are installing Employee Earnings History for the first time, perform only the steps under Installing Employee Earnings History for the First Time. 1. Download the InstallShield program for Employee Earnings History by clicking EarningsHistory-1-5.exe; save the file on your PC. 2. On your PC using Windows Explorer, locate and open the downloaded file EarningsHistory-1-5.exe. When the InstallShield program starts, answer the questions about your college's Web server. The InstallShield program expands the Employee Earnings History HTML and CFG files and customizes them for your college.

6 3. On your PC, locate the Employee Earnings History installation directory. The default installation directory is C:/Program Files/CIS/Earnings History 4. Copy the file waci404.html from the Employee Earnings History installation directory on your PC to the /earnhist/ directory on your Web server. You can use any software that allows you to copy files (for example, Windows Explorer or FTP). Copy the HTML file to the /earnhist/ directory as ASCII. Verify that the permissions on the file are correct. At a minimum, they should allow Read access for all viewers of the Employee Earnings History pages. Additional Documentation For complete information about this application, see PPMS Employee Earnings History For information about other SBCTC-ITD Web-enabled applications, see Web-Enabled Applications Contacting SBCTC-ITD for Assistance If you have any questions or comments about Employee Earnings History, please contact SBCTC-ITD Customer Support: by phone at (425) by at support@sbctc.edu