Resolver One Web Server Documentation

The Resolver One Web Server allows you to publish any Resolver One workbook so that it can be accessed over a network via a web browser.

This means you can share your workbooks with many people, without risk of anyone using an out-of-date version of the document.

A good overview of the web server is shown in this screencast.

Running the Resolver One Web Server

The server itself is run from a Windows command line, and serves all the Resolver One workbooks in a specified directory. Any web browser pointed at the host PC's port 8080 can see the Resolver One files in that directory.

  1. Open a command line window (Select "Run" from the Windows Start menu and enter "cmd").

  2. Change to the Resolver One directory. By default this is c:\Program Files\Resolver One.

  3. Start the web server by running bin\ResolverOneWebServer c:\ResolverFiles ...where c:\ResolverFiles is the path to the directory that holds the Resolver One files to publish.

    The message Resolver One Web Server started on port 8080 indicates that it is running:

    images/starting-web-server.gif

Connecting to the server

To connect from another PC...

  • Point the web browser at the host PC's port 8080, e.g. http://my-web-server-machine:8080 where my-web-server-machine is the host name of the machine running the server.

To connect to the server from the machine running it...

  • Point the web browser to http://localhost:8080/.

(See "Command line syntax", below, for changing the port.)

Editing workbooks via the browser

You can permit remote users to edit specified cells. This generates a personal copy of the workbook on the server. The edits persist in the personal copy, but do not affect the main document. This allows you to share workbooks amongst many people without risk of anyone else accidentally introducing errors in your original document.

images/setting-web-editable.gif

  1. Open the workbook in Resolver One

  2. Select the cells you want to be editable.

  3. Select Data, Web Editable.

  4. Save the workbook.

  5. Restart the web server (see below).

    The values and formulae in the marked cells can now be changed remotely.

Restarting the Resolver One Web Server

If the workbooks in the shared directory change, you must restart the server:

  1. In same the window you typed the ResolverOneWebServer command, press Ctrl-C to kill the web server.
  2. Re-enter the original start command. (See "Running the Resolver One Web Server", above.)

Command line syntax

The full command-line syntax is:

ResolverOneWebServer.exe [options] <directory> [<port>]

where options are:

-h, --help Show this help message and exit.
--thomson-username=THMUSERNAME
 Username for logging in to Thomson data feeds (if you have the optional Financial Date Feeds package installed).
--thomson-password=THMPASSWORD
 Password to use for logging in to Thomson data feeds (if you have the optional Financial Date Feeds package installed).

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