Naming servers available to the Participants and Activate activities
This task applies only to sites running SQL Server and a named instance.
When the Participants and Activate activities generate the selection list for the Server field, they do not include named instances. Users can normally choose an unlisted server simply by typing its name in the input box. However, this does not work for named instances. To avoid this situation it is best to restrict users to choosing from a predefined list of server names only.
The names of available servers and access rights to those servers are defined the SampleMgtGUI.Config.xml file. To restrict the servers that can be chosen in Participants and Activate, edit the file as follows:
1 Navigate to [INSTALL_FOLDER]\IBM\SPSS\DataCollection\<version>\Interviewer Server\FMRoot\Shared\Config and open SampleMgtGUI.Config.Xml in a text editor.
2 In the <SampleManagementGUI> tag, add the showexistingonly="false" attribute as follows:
<SampleManagementGUI showexistingonly="false">
...
</SampleManagementGUI>
3 Save your changes and close the file.
For more information about
SampleMgtGUI.Config.xml, see
Controlling access to sample data.
See