Apply AIMsi updates to your test environment

When to use this procedure

Follow the steps below to apply any recent AIMsi software updates to your test environment(s).

Alternatively, you may choose to follow the steps in Install any AIMsi updates to apply updates to your test environment(s).

Steps to complete

Prerequisites: Close AIMsi on all of your workstations before beginning this procedure. Then, complete these steps on your AIMsi server.

  1. Access Windows Explorer and navigate to the location where you installed AIMsi in Install the server copy of AIMsi.
  2. Expand the AIMsi folder and click the data sub-folder.
  3. On the Windows Explorer Edit menu, click Select all.

  1. Right-click in the file list pane and click Copy.

  1. Navigate to the AIMsi - Test folder you created in Create a test environment.
  2. Right-click the data sub-folder and click Paste. If you are presented with a message to copy and replace, click Yes to All.

  1. Open your test AIMsi and log in.
  2. On the main menu bar, click Maintenance, then point to General Maintenance and click System Variables.
  3. Set the value for TrainingSystem to Y; this will change the AIMsi workspace from white to blue as a visual indicator that this is a test system.

  1. Turn off credit card processing. To do so:
    1. On the main menu bar, click Maintenance, then point to General Maintenance and click Work Stations.
    2. On the Work Station window, click the CC tab.
    3. Right click in the POS Gateway and Auto/Web Pay Gateway boxes and click Remove Authorization Type POS and Remove Authorization Type Autopay, respectively.
    4. Click Save.

Helpful links

Install any AIMsi updates

Create a test environment

Access AIMsi from networked workstations

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Installing AIMsi

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