PrintDesk - Printer Setup System Remastered

Overview

Printer Setup System Remastered is a remaster of PrinterSetupSystem project originally written on PHP, to Java Web Application.

Printer Setup System is a center that provides a single point of contact between users and printers. User can install required printers to his computer without technical support help.

Installation

System can be deployed both Windows and Linux Tomcat 8 server with MYSQL.

• Install Tomcat 8 and MYSQL on your server.
• Download from release page or directly PrinterSetupSystem.war file.
• Rename it to ROOT.war file.
• Copy renamed WAR file to your Tomcat 8 installation WEBAPPS folder
• Run http://yourserver:port/install, specify DB server ip (127.0.0.1 or localhost if mysql installed on the same server), login, password and press install button to create required tables
• Open http://yourserver:port/login to login into the system. Login: admin password: admin. Do not forget to change password for security reasons

Fixing Issues

Database config file is located in: WEB-INF\classes\config.properties. To set manually database configuration change this file. To open install page, set: "db.configured=no". By default system creates "printersetupsystem" database and sets "db.configured=yes".

You can manually import database by loading WEB-INF\classes\printersetupsystem.sql file. To lock install page set "db.configured=yes" again.

Features:

• Home page where users can select branch first
• User can search branch on Home page
• Page where are shown list of printers of selected branch
• Ability to search a printer on a branch printers page
• Page where users can globally search for a Branch or a Printer
• Page with Manual, content of which you can edit via WYSIWYG editor in admin panel
• Admin panel which allows you to edit all system settings
• Possibility to edit DB connection config file without rebuilding an entire application
• Possibility to edit printer install script and its extension. (For example your ps1 script, or VBS script and so on)
• Ability to setup system database from system (http://yourserver:port/install link) at first setup
• Printer information page, where are shown following information
  • Name
  • Description
  • Online badge if printer is online
  • IP
  • Printer location
  • Printer vendor
  • Printer page views count
  • Ability to send current print page link via email
  • Install button, which downloads your script to install printer
  • Printer type

Features for future implementation:

• List of paper types which printer can print
• Create basic Admin Printer paper types page
• Create Reports page for statistic reports
• Create common system tasks page:
• Reset all printer views count
• Clear all printers
• Clear all branches
• "Online" badge shows if printer is online

Small fixes:

• Fix all descriptions of the functions
• Refactor Printer.jsp page logic

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