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 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.
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, complete the following steps:
1 Go to the [INSTALL_FOLDER]\IBM\SPSS\DataCollection\<version>\Interviewer Server\FMRoot\Shared\Config folder, and then open the SampleMgtGUI.Config.Xml file in a text editor.
2 In the <SampleManagementGUI> tag, add the showexistingonly="false" attribute as follows:
<SampleManagementGUI showexistingonly="false">
...
</SampleManagementGUI>
3 Save the file, and then close it.
For more information about
SampleMgtGUI.Config.xml, see
Controlling access to sample data.
See