ACL for Windows Installation and Activation Guide

This guide provides detailed instructions for installing ACL for Windows, which contains the following components:

  • Analytics
  • The Analysis App window
  • Offline Projects

The guide also provides detailed instructions for upgrading Analytics.

ACL for Windows installation quick start

(For detailed installation steps, see Install ACL for Windows)

Note

When you install or upgrade Analytics, any existing Analytics sample data files are overwritten if they are in the Analytics working directory you specify during the installation or upgrade.

If you have made changes to any of the sample projects or data files that you want to keep, save the files elsewhere before installing or upgrading, or rename the folder containing them. Do the same with the associated command log files if you want to preserve them.

Download the installer

Sign in to Launchpad (www.highbond.com) and download the ACL for Windows installation package (ACLforWindows141.exe).

If you do not have Launchpad sign-in credentials, see Install ACL for Windows.

Extract the installation files

  1. Double-click the ACL for Windows installation package (ACLforWindows141.exe).
  2. If a security warning dialog box appears, verify the information listed, and click Yes.
  3. Select the language you want to use for your installation and click OK.
  4. In the Setup Extraction Location page, click Extract.

    After the files are extracted the installer starts automatically.

Install prerequisites, if required

If you are prompted to install prerequisites, click Install.

After the prerequisites are installed, the installer automatically proceeds.

Perform the ACL for Windows installation

Follow the onscreen instructions to perform the ACL for Windows installation.

In the ACL Edition Selection page, select the edition you want to install:

  • Non-Unicode
  • Unicode

Caution

Ensure that the edition you install is the correct edition for your organization.

For more information, see Should I install the non-Unicode or the Unicode edition of Analytics?

(Optional) Run the ACL for Windows patch installer

If you need any of the version 14.1.1 or 14.1.2 fixes, run the patch installer. If you do not need the fixes, running the patch installer is optional.

For information about the fixes, see Release notes.

  1. From Launchpad, download the ACL for Windows patch installer (ACLforWindows_Update_v14.1.0_v14.1.2.msp).
  2. Double-click the patch installer.
  3. If a security warning dialog box appears, verify the information listed, and click Open.
  4. Follow the onscreen instructions to run the ACL for Windows patch.

Activate Analytics

How you activate Analytics depends on your organization's Launchpad authentication method:

  • Standard authentication If you have a single Analytics subscription, you probably use the standard authentication.
  • Authentication using a custom domain If your organization uses Single Sign-On (SSO), you authenticate using a custom domain.

Note

If your organization uses a custom domain, do not enter an email and password on the first screen of the Launchpad sign-in screen.

Standard authentication

  1. Double-click the ACL for Windows 14 shortcut on your desktop.
  2. Enter your Launchpad sign-in credentials and click Sign In.
  3. Select your organization if you are prompted to do so, and click Activate Analytics.

    ACL for Windows opens.

Authentication using a custom domain

  1. Double-click the ACL for Windows 14 shortcut on your desktop.
  2. Click Sign in to a custom domain at the bottom of the Launchpad sign-in screen.
  3. Enter your organization's custom domain and click Continue.

    If you do not know your custom domain, contact the in your company.

  4. Enter your SSO credentials.
  5. Make sure your organization is selected, and click Activate Analytics.

    ACL for Windows opens.

Start Analytics

To start Analytics, do one of the following:

To create a new, empty Analytics project Under Create, click Analytic Project
To open an existing Analytics project Under Open, click Analytic Project
To open a recent or a sample Analytics project (.acl) Under Recent Analytics Files, or Sample Files, click the name of a project

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