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USFS-PNW / Fia-Biosum-Manager

User interface and main code repository for Biosum
http://biosum.info/
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Evaluate installing BioSum in the user AppData folder #246

Open lbross opened 4 years ago

lbross commented 4 years ago

so that USFS users don't need elevate privileges to install BioSum

lbross commented 4 years ago

Larry has converted these software applications from having to install elevated to installing without elevation:

1 National Ownership Management System (NOMS) 2 Boundary Viewer 3 MIDAS Text File Data Loader All of the above applications are essential FIA applications that use to install with an MSI file. With that being said, do we want to move towards an FIA Biosum setup that does not require elevated privileges?

Basically, the non-admin installs are able to work because the .net framework is already installed on the client computers, the applications are installed in a folder other than the c:\program files or c:\program files (x86), and the desktop icon is stored in a users\userid subfolder.

FIA Boundary Viewer (BV) is installed to the c:\Users\userid\AppData\Roaming\ FIA Boundary Viewer folder. It has full privileges for the logged in user. The BV application works the same as before. Larry has yet to see a computer that did not have the .NET Framework 4.5 library installed on it. However, this requirement will still need to be monitored since the FS computer image could change without warning and not include the .NET framework 4.5.