Starting the Smart Flows Service

When starting your Smart Flows service for the first time, an administrator must confirm the service is active. This topic walks administrators through the process of confirming your Experlogix Smart Flows service is active and ready for login.

Execute the install command & start the service

1.

Open the command prompt as an Administrator.

2.

Navigate to the project folder.

3.

Run each of the following commands to install & start Smart Flows as a Windows service.

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C:\Users\myprofile>cd C:\Xpertdoc Smart Flows\project-prod

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C:\Xpertdoc Smart Flows\project-prod> smartflows-server install

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C:\Xpertdoc Smart Flows\project-prod> smartflows-server start

Confirm service start

Once you’ve executed the install command and started the service, you can confirm the system’s activation via the log file. Your server XML file in the installation folders specifies where you have configured your system to store the log files. To confirm if the service is started you can always check the log files.

1.

Navigate to the XML file located in your installation folder.

2.

Note where the system indicates where the logs are stored, for example, C:\Xpertdoc Smart Flows\project-prod> smartflows-server start.

3.

Navigate to the log file location you noted in STEP 2 Confirming Smart Flows service start on page 1 .

4.

Open the log file and verify activation

4.1.

If your log file includes, the entry application started, you have successfully started your Smart Flows service. Please continue to Test Smart Flows Service.

4.2.

If your log file does not include entry application started, please repeat STEP 1 Confirming Smart Flows service start on page 1 through STEP 3 Confirming Smart Flows service start on page 1 to install and activate your Smart Flows service. If you continue to experience issues, please reach out to our Customer Success Team.

Test and Log-in Smart Flows Service

Now that your Smart Flows service is active, you can navigate to it in your browser and login to your project for the first time.

You can locate your Smart Flows server URL in your application.properties file. The Smart Flows server value is set by the project.baseurl element.

1.

In your browser’s address bar, copy and paste the URL for Smart Flows server. (Optional) Add the port number after your Smart Flows server URL if you are not using the default port number.

The login page for your Smart Flows instance displays.

2.

Login with admin credentials stored in your application.properties file.

2.1.

Select the login in with log in with password option.

2.2.

Enter admin for the username.

2.3.

Enter the password specifed in the application.properties file.

2.4.

Select the login button.

Upon logging in, the system prompts you to change the admin password.

3.

Follow the wizard’s guidance for changing the password.

WARNING: If you do not delete the sample.user.password value, it will overwrite your attempts to change the admin password.

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After you have changed the password for the admin user, navigate to your application.properties file and delete the sample.user.password value.

You’ve successfully started your Smart Flows service and you can now install the Template Builder word-add-in. Please refer toInstalling Template Builder for more information.