Step 3. Use CIMPLICITY through a Remote Desktop Session

About this task

Users who have the required licenses can work with CIMPLICITY through the Remote Desktop options.

CIMPLICITY can be used almost the same as if a user is sitting at the project's PC when any Remote Desktop session is being used.

There are some guidelines, mainly to insure the proper implementation of project revisions if multiple users are working with a project at the same time through Remote Desktop sessions.

Guidelines for CIMPLICITY Projects through Remote Desktop

A user can control any feature on the Remote Desktop server for which he or she has authorization.

Users can work with CIMPLICITY as if they are sitting at the Remote Desktop server.

Procedure

  1. You can have different CIMPLICITY Remote Desktop client sessions open simultaneously so you can work concurrently ??on different projects in CIMPLICITY applications.

    Example: If two clients display the Workbench on each desktop and one user closes the Workbench, the second client desktop continues to display the Workbench.

  2. Any changes made to CIMPLICITY during all client sessions go directly into the CIMPLICITY database.
  3. All projects run in the global session on a CIMPLICITY Remote Desktop server-CIMPLICITY server. Therefore, if several people are working on a project and one person stops it, the project stops for all of them.

    Two effects are:

    1. If a client user with configuration privileges is involved in configuration, e.g. creating a new point, the dynamic configuration is no longer running. The user will have to do a configuration update in order to implement the changes.
    2. Runtime applications for the project that shuts down will either:
    • No longer display data if more than one project is running (so the router is still running) or
    • Shut down if there was only one project running (and the router has stopped).
  4. When the router stops on a CIMPLICITY Remote Desktop server-CIMPLICITY client, runtime applications stop on the Remote Desktop server and for all CIMPLICITY Remote Desktop clients.