How do I move my data to another location?
Go into the Company menu and select Alter
Company Details. On the first tab you will see a Drive/Directory
for Data. This specifies where the company data is held. Change the
Drive for Data to the new location and say OK. You will then be
asked "The Data file location has changed, do you want to move the
data files now?" or "You have altered the 'Drive for Data' field.
Do you want to move the data base to its new location?". Say
Yes.
How do I change the location of IRIS
Payroll Professional from one server to another?
- Map a network drive from a workstation to the
server where you want to install the program.
- Create a sub folder on the network drive you
have just mapped. (This is important as IRIS Payroll Professional
may have problems running on a root driver).
- Install Payroll Professional to the new
program location. Ensure you select Typical in the install
options.
- Perform a Workstation installation from one
of your workstations, ensuring you set the destination location to
the same path as you installed the typical installation to.
- Check that the shortcut on the workstation
that you use to run Payroll Professional has the new 'target' and
'start-in' locations. If not, modify them to correct.
- If you have your license details you can try
running Payroll Professional from the new location at this stage.
When you run the program it will detect that it is unlicensed and
will prompt you for your license details. If you do not have them,
skip this step and continue. If you decide to enter your license
details the program will run and you can try opening the Demo
company to verify that it has installed to the network
correctly.
- Assuming you also require a new location for
the data files, create the folders you require for this and copy
the data files into them. Payroll Professional data files
take the form xxxxDATA.mdb and xxxxLOG.mdb where xxxx is the
company number.
- Copy the file 'E32-sys.mdb' from the original
location to the new program location, that is the same location as
the IRISPayrollProfessional.exe file. E32-sys.mdb contains a list
of the companies and their respective data locations and will need
modifying in order for Payroll Professional to locate the companies
correctly.
- To modify the E32-sys.mdb file to point to
the correct data location you can phone your support centre and ask
them to help you perform an SQL to change the locations using the
E32SQL utility or attempt to open each company in turn and when the
program fails to find the correct location - it will ask you if you
want to browse for it, browse to the new location and repeat for
all the other companies in the system.
- When you are able to access all of the
companies from one workstation, repeat steps 4 & 5 for all of
the other workstations in your system. More >
