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| ====== Connection to Gestan ====== | ====== Logging in to Gestan ====== |
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| ===== Login ===== | ===== Log in ===== |
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| To connect to Gestan, you must click on the icon installed on your computer after installing Gestan. | To log in to Gestan, click on the icon installed on your computer following the installation of Gestan. |
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| {{:fr:wiki:outils:login_01.png?nolink|}} | {{fr:wiki:outils:login_01.png?nolink|}} |
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| This will open the Gestan login screen. | This will open the login screen for Gestan. |
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| The Gestan connection screen allows you to select the base to which you want to connect (if you have declared several bases), as well as to enter your code and password. | The login screen for Gestan allows you to select the database you wish to connect to (if you have set up multiple databases), as well as to enter your username and password. |
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| {{:fr:wiki:outils:login_04.png?nolink|}} | {{ fr:wiki:outils:login_04.png?nolink |}} |
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| If the **"remember"** box is checked, the code and password will be pre-populated at the next connection. All you have to do is click on **"connect"**. And if the connection is declared as automatic in the connections table, the login screen will not even be displayed, the connection will be made directly. | If the **Memo** box is ticked, your username and password will be pre-filled the next time you log in. All you’ll need to do is click on **Log in**. And if the connection is set to ‘automatic’ in the connection table, the login screen won’t even appear; you’ll be logged in straight away. |
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| The **"Lost password"** link allows you to re-send your password to the user's email address. If the latter has been incorrectly informed, you will then have to resort to technical support. | At the bottom of the login screen, you’ll see the version of Gestan and the address of the database you wish to connect to. |
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| At the bottom right of the connection screen is the address of the base to which you want to connect, the address of the server in the case of a Client/Server base, the directory in the case of a base LAN. | |
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| ===== Lost password ===== | ===== Lost password ===== |
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| If you have lost your password, click on the **lost password** link in the login window. This opens the screen below. | If you’ve lost your password, click on the link **Forgotten password** in the login window. |
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| {{:fr:wiki:outils:login_05.png|}} | This screen allows you to have your user ID and password resent to you by email, either using your Gestan user ID, or usingone of the email addresses you have provided (work or personal email address, if you have provided them), or using your surname – normally, you should know at least one of these three details – or by contacting the primary database administrator, who will then be able to change your password. |
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| This screen allows you to send your code and password by email, either from your Gestan user code, or from one of the email addresses you have provided (professional email address or personal email address, if you have them). entered), either from your last name normally, you should know at least one of these three elements or to the first administrator of the database, who will be able to modify your password. | If none of these methods work, uninstalling the programme is of no use as uninstallation does not delete the data. Your only option is to **contact support**. |
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| If you entered an exotic setting when initializing the database via the startup wizard, it may not work. You then have two solutions: destroy the database (there is no point in uninstalling the program, this does not delete the data), or request technical support intervention via remote control: this is the purpose of the button **Argh!**. | ===== Tools on the login screen ===== |
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| ===== Login Screen Tools ===== | The context menu on the login screen offers the following options: |
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| The context menu (right-click on this screen) presents the options below: | {{fr:wiki:outils:login_03.png|}} |
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| {{:fr:wiki:outils:login_03.png|}} | **Show Tools ** displays four icons, provided the code and password entered are correct. |
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| **Show Tools** allows four icons to be displayed, provided the code and password entered are correct. | The <badge>1</badge> opens the connection table. |
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| {{:fr:wiki:outils:login_02.png?nolink|}} | The icon <badge>2</badge> allows you to re-index files: just like politicians, files can sometimes become corrupted. For files, this isn’t too serious; this tool allows you to re-index them. |
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| The <badge>1</badge> icon opens the connections table. | The icon <badge>3</badge> allows you to remove the file from the connections list. This forces Gestan to restart from the installation wizard. Normally, you shouldn’t need to use this, but we have seen cases where this option is useful. |
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| The <badge>2</badge> icon allows you to reindex files: like politicians, it can happen that files are corrupted. For files, it's not too serious, this tool allows you to reindex them. | The icon <badge>4</badge> is reserved for technical support. |
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| The <badge>3</badge> icon allows you to delete the connections file. This forces Gestan to restart from the installation wizard. Normally you shouldn't use this, but we have observed cases where this possibility is useful. | |
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| The <badge>4</badge> icon is reserved for technical support. | Via **Delete all passwords**, all passwords stored on the computer will be deleted: this will force the next user to enter a code and a password. |
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| Via **Clear all passwords**, all passwords stored on the computer will be erased: this will force the next user to enter a code and password. | **Opening the directory** opens the folder where the data is stored. |
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| **Deleting saved connections** allows you to force Gestan to restart the startup wizard, as when you first started the Gestan installation. | **Automatic login** allows you to open Gestan automatically (without going through the login window), provided a username and password have been saved for the last database accessed. |
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| **Open directory** opens the one where the data is stored. | |
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| {{:wiki:tags:voir_aussi.gif?nolink |}}**Other Tools articles** | {{wiki:tags:voir_aussi.gif?nolink |}}**Other “Tools” articles** |
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