HQ Client Command-Line Options

YidMo,

I might be missing something, only had 3 hours sleep last night, but if you create a shortcut to HQClient.exe and place it in the Startup folder of All Users, HQ Client will connect according to the schedule you've setup, after _anyone_ logs into Windows

If you're asking about running HQ Client as a Windows service, currently its not supported, but sometimes works with an add-on Run As a Service program, like SrvAny

Hey there Jeff, thanks for your reply... You're right about putting it in the startup group and all, however the most relevent part of the enquiry I think you might have missed; As we have a lot of locations, we have them all set to connect 5 minutes apart from one another, so as not to weigh-down our HQ server. As HQClient will only run at "x" minutes past the hour, this won't work if I wanted them all to connect say right at midnight. The idea here is to create a process that will FORCE all the HQ clients to both run AND connect at one very specific moment of the evening. The reason for this, in my case, is because we have an automated report that runs, which requires ALL stores to have transmitted their sales/tender information. The report needs to run at a designated time, and I need to ASSURE that all of the stores have connected and updated accordingly, regardless of if someone at the store has decided to close HQClient or not.

Hence, using the Event Scheduler in XP, I can create an event that'll run/restart HQClient at a specific time, even if nobody is logged-in. This ASSURES me that it'll be running. The catch becomes; how to make sure that it connects at 11.55pm rather than say 12.20am at a store scheduled to connect at 20-past every hour. If there was a switch to make HQClient connect to HQServer on startup, I could have the event scheduler script kill any running HQClients, start it with the switch, and voila it'd connect at

11.55pm when I need it to so I can have the reports run at midnight and I'm certa> YidMo,

YidMo,

I don't see anything in Partner/CustomerSource about any switches, nor does hqclient/? or /h reveal any.

How about some kind of macro program to do it? Run your Scheduled task to start HQClient and then another task to run a macro that emulates a Connect click on the HQ Client toolbar.

There really has to be a way to do this as when you right click the HQClient icon in the system tray, Connect is an option.

Great thinking Jeff - I downloaded a freeware application called MacroMaker which had enough parameter flexibility to allow me to create a scheduled script that's just what I needed.

Many thanks!

YidMo

"Jeff" wrote:

YidMo,

Making all stores connect to the server at the same time will create problems at HQ Server e.g. communication error for some stores. Check and verify your 401s were processed correctly. Best way it to stagger the store connections.

Best regards,

Mihir Shah Diviasoft, Inc

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We have a hq client that runs as a service but I don't know if that is because our supplier has custom written it or not. But try this: create a shortcut to the client, and add " serviceinstall" at the end. eg c:\program files\rms\hqclient serviceinstall"

If it is the same as how ours works, it should p> Great thinking Jeff - I downloaded a freeware application called MacroMaker