Install the Aligned Elements Web Server Package

Now all the prerequisites are installed and we can install Aligned Elements itself.

1. Download the Aligned Elements Web Server Package from this website. Make sure that you select the correct version for your organisation (depending on whether you already have Aligned Elements installed in your organisation). If this is the first time Aligned Elements is installed in the organisation, use the latest version. If you are unsure which version to select, contact [e-mail].

2. In the next step we will create a “site” for Aligned Elements. Open the IIS Manager and use the context menu on the “Sites” folder to select “Add Website” to open the “Add Website” dialog.

3. Add the name to your site, e.g. ‘Elements’. (We suggest you use the web site name Elements. The examples in the rest of this document will use the web site name Elements.)

Specify a physical path for the site. If you are unsure about which path to select, it is recomented to use: c:/inetpub/Elements (provided that you have called the site “Elements”). You can leave the other fields like ‘bindings’ empty for now.

When completed, a “globe” icon with the name of the site (e.g. Elements) shall be visible under the “Sites” folder on the left side of the IIS Manager.

4. For the file you downloaded in step 1 (called something on the form Elements_2_Elements_SPA_Realease_2.4.XX.XXXXX_artifacts.zip), extract the zip file to a temporary folder/work location on the windows server e.g. the desktop. The exact location does not matter. Just use a location that is easy to work from.

The unzipped content looks like this (here we have unzipped the file from step 1) to a temporary folder on the server's desktop called "Update AE V2.6"):

5. Open the file ElementsSPAPackage.SetParameters.xml in Notepad.

Adapt the value for the IIS Web Application Name attribute to match the current site name.

So if the site name is “Elements”, the entry should look like:

<setParameter name="IIS Web Application Name" value="Elements" />

6. Now it is time to install the Aligned Elements Server application.

Open a Command Prompt (or Power Shell) with Admin rights and navigate to the location of the unzipped file in step 4.

Start out by running a test deployment by writing "ElementsSPAPackage.deploy.cmd /T" or Power Shell : ".\ElementsSPAPackage.deploy.cmd /T" (optionally pipe the output to a text file ElementsSPAPackage.deploy.cmd /T > test.txt) in the Command window and click Enter.

You should now start to see entries describing several installation steps that are running (this can take up to a minute). No errors should appear in the output.

7. If the test above is successful, perform the real deployment by writing "ElementsSPAPackage.deploy.cmd /Y" in the Command (or Power Shell : ".\ElementsSPAPackage.deploy.cmd /Y") window.

8. Once completed, the Aligned Elements Web Server has now been installed under the physical path of the site, specified in step 3 above. We will, from now, on refer to this location as the installation directory.