Hello

I would like to set up manic time with SQL server to aggregate time across mulitple users.
Seems Server will provide this ability but trying to clarify some of the help pages I am reading.

I understand setting up the SQL server via the script.

Does each system need server installed and the data manually published?

Thanks for the help and a great tool

So I Can run a SQL server, a Manic Time Server, and clients?


My Manictimeserver config on my MTserver would have a connect string to my sqlserver

Than from clients I add the MTserver?

The MT server would need IIS running?

Thanks

It is running now.

How do I share tags between clients?

Hello Admin

Can you be a bit more explicit about what needs to be put into the Add Server dialog Url field, when trying to connect a user of ManicTime to a ManicTimeServer on another PC? I placed ManicTimeServer in C://Program Files on the "serving" PC - is that OK? Your instructions just say to "copy contents to some folder". Should MTS perhaps be running from a shared folder?
The MTServer is running and I can connect to it on the same PC, but not from client PC. There is a lot of presumption that your users know how to connect betweeen PCs!

Thanks

Bill

Thanks, will try and reply.

There is only one address to try. Try this in the browser on the other computer (you can also try it on the one running the server)
http://[PCNAME]:8080/

It should ask you for a username and password. If it does, then it can connect to it.
If it doesn't:
How are the two computers connected? Is this a home network, connected through the same router or something else?

About share
Share is not necessary. Imagine that the server is just an app which listens for requests on port 8080.
Maybe this analogy will help. Imagine Google, they have a huge database, but the way you connect to it is through web browser, so http protocol port 80. You don't get a network share to their database, but rather your view of their database is through their website.
MT server works in the same way. It is just a normal web server listening for requests. When it gets a request it checks the database and returns some data. For example to get a list of timelines MT sends this request to the server
http://[PCNAME]:8080/timelines/

This returns the list of timelines. Then it sends other requests for all activities on a particular day....

I updated both pages, hope its more clear now.

http://www.manictime.com.../36/how-to-set-up-server
http://www.manictime.com...he-server-from-manictime

Now that you have it running, if you have some time would you like to try the next version of the server? The difference is mostly in the server analytics and I'd really like some feedback on that.
The version really is beta, I mean more of a prototype then anything else. But it should be as stable as the current version since most of the work was done on statistics.

www.manictime.com/setup/...beta/manictimeserver.zip

How to upgrade is here
http://www.manictime.com...-server-to-newer-version

I'll go through the list you mentioned in another post, one quick comment though.
You don't need to create another user, in fact I'd say that is quite the opposite of our intent because now MT will track two users for you.

If you connect from another machine, just use the user on the machine where the server is running. So for example

MT is installed on the SERVER1

SERVER1\user

should allow you to connect from any machine to this machine. I guess its the same as remote desktop, when you connect to some machine you use credentials of that machine, not the machine you are using at the time.

Hi,
I've just upgraded. Unfortunately the Analytics tab is not working for me. Here is a screenshot what I see. I've played with all buttons and time ranges there but I can't see anything. Any suggestions?
I wonder why are you working on such features? You know better but isn't it easier to implement such analytics in MT interface and not to create web interface? I suggest not to spend much time on that but instead to improve MT Client interface and to allow such analytics based on shared timelines. Or maybe to create ManicTimeServerClient.exe and to use almost the same interface as this in ManicTimeClient.exe to display such analytics data.


It's better to discuss that in the other thread but let me tell you why that is not good solution.
Consider the following use case. I and two my friends work on a project. We want to track our time spent on the project and to keep it in one place (in MT Server DB). Because we don't have separate machine to run MT Server we decide to use one of our own PCs. So if I will run the server on my own PC I have to give my user/password to my friends. I use only one user in Windows with admin privileges. So if I give them these user and pass I give them full access to my PC! That includes Remote desktop, remote access to all my files even they are not shared, ability to restart/shutdown my PC remotely... Also I give them an access to view all timelines and this way sharing of timelines is useless, because I give them the password for the Admin of MT Server and all of them can see and change everything. That's not acceptable! Even more - what will happen if I have a company with 20 employees and setup all instances of MT to use my username and later I decide to change my password? Then I'll have to change the password in all MT installs! What about if I want to use MT in company with 200 employees?
MT Server should not rely on Windows accounts. Using Windows accounts is not scalable. MT Server should work like... for example MySQL Server. It should have own users, own roles, own privileges and everything else related to user management.