if you click on that link when there are no scheduled events for that tech it will give this error.. so we created a fix that prevents this type of error.
The Tech+Center requires a connection to a open SMTP server. To verify that you STMP server will be compatible with the Tech+Center email approach, run the following tes...<more>
There appears to be some problems with installing Web+Center on Vista when the version of Vista is before mid 2008. The step where most users get hung up is on the datab...<more>
If you are having troubles connecting to an SMTP mail server that requires authentication in version 6.0 or version 5.0, a fix was made to the sendemail.inc file in the l...<more>
This error message may occur Integrated Windows Authentication is not checked. To Configure this, got to ISS and under default website properities, directory security,...<more>
If the web+center installation does not use the standard webserver port of 80, there are some customizations that have to be made to make the login links in the notificat...<more>
With SQL*Server, the LDAP enable flag is not set and left as null which
triggers both no LDAP and no regular Web+Center logins. To fix this with existing systems, si...<more>
This errors occurs when the users attempts to display a customer+center page that requires that they have already logged into the customer+center application. When user...<more>
Email notifications are sent out to customers and techs when a support case is updated. Inside of the email notifications are options for the customer or the tech to log...<more>
This can be fixed by going to the Regional settings under the control panel and set the date format to UK/english setting. The Access database uses these regional settin...<more>
You can force the case link to be exactly the URL you want by changing some links in the DoTCaseForm.asp (techcenter directory) module and the DoCaseForm.asp (Customerc...<more>
You will get this error if you have reset the time zone setting to a non numeric value.. this is found under administration.. system configuration menu.. additional conf...<more>
The Web+Center 4.0 to 5.0 upgrade script will fail if the Norton Anti-virus software is install and if the Eanble Script Blocking is enabled. This can be configured by l...<more>
Yes.. we have some users that have sucessfully configured the Web+Center software on the Vista using SQL*Express as the backend database. Extensive testing has not yet (...<more>
The Dropdown list at the top of every customer+center page is now created in some code in the ccheader.inc file which is located in the customercenter directory.
To change the currency symbol and made other label customizations, simply edit the label definitions file called wclabels.inc located in the language subdirectory. The d...<more>
To do this, you can follow some of the existing code in the DoRegistrations.asp module and change the code for the company field and make it required. This is around li...<more>
If the application reports "The requested resource is in use" error, try going to services and restarting world wide web publishing service, registering vbscript.dll in ...<more>
the new version of McAfee security center, the "McAfee Privacy Service" which runs as a windows service needs to be disabled until McAfee can provide a fix in a future re...<more>
The PrintTCaseForm.asp module located in the techcenter directory is designed to be customized by you to create a printable case ticket. Edit this module using a plain t...<more>
Make sure that you have set the integrated windows security option under IIS.. default website, properties, directory security, click on the edit button and then check th...<more>
IF you are running Windows 2003 64 bit version, you need a special version of our ASP mailer. To obtain this mailer, obtain a version of this mailer from
There is new database connection syntax required when using this configuration. We have found a way to connect to the database directly without an DSN using the string:<...<more>
First try to run regsvr32 on the aosmtp.dll module. Secondly, try using regedit to verify certain registry settings. This should only be required in special cases and no...<more>
If you are getting a permissions denied error when logging into AD using the Web+Center AD/LDAP configuration page, try entering the complete distinquished user name. ...<more>
To set IE to automatically forward the logged in authentication information to the doAutologin.asp script, click on Internet options, security tab, local or internet zo...<more>
To send an additional email to an administrator when a person self registers, edit the DoRegistration.asp module located in the customercenter directory.
When using the database scripts from download 3.1 (01/23/01 or earlier) on SQL 2000, you may
encounter these errors.
Server: Msg 103, Level 15, State 7, Line...<more>
To posibly help solve some problems with the Access ODBC driver which are not thread safe and thus could cause problems when mulitple users access the Web+Center at the s...<more>
If you click on reports and then click on Edit Top 10 List link you can add cases to the FAQ. Cases added to the FAQ should have their case summary and case resolution fields completed.
his is an HTML behavior with the input HTML tag.
When a double quote in the text field, it ends the double quote character that started to define the input name=<more>
Versions before Feb 25, 2001 may have problems deleting techs using the administration tools. This has been fixed in version 3.2.1. and can also be obtained using our ve...<more>
There are three places where will need to change the code that creates the customer ID to be consistent across all three of the tools (Tech+Center, Customer+Center and <more>
When IIS and SQL Server are running on separate machines, the NT domain security
must be set up to allow named pipes connections between the two servers.
Specif...<more>
The wc30 user does not have enough permissions for the webcenter30 database when this occurs. To fix this:
1) Open up the SQL Server enterprize manager
2) Expand...<more>
There exists in the techcenter directory an extensive script to import customer records and properly create customer IDs. Please review and then modify as need the impor...<more>
Yes... Using the Group Notification option this can be done. Use the steps below:
1) Add a tech staff member to the default group (admin or dispatcher or any tech ...<more>
These are configurable under options under administration... and Email Text and User Page Configuration options. Additional configurations can be done by editing the DoTC...<more>
We has occured before for users of a special browser on a non PC or mac platform.. possibly Lynx... but we have created a code work around to handle this problem in the n...<more>
Version 3.1 has a complete re-designed of the asset management component and allows for assets to assigned to customers, to techs or to other assets. This version has sc...<more>
Users reports getting error for the techsupp.dll file:
HTTP Error 401
401.3 Unauthorized: Unauthorized due to ACL on resource
This error indicates that the cr...<more>
Running Web+Center on Windows 2000 will create a generic Windows 2000 server 500 error because the default file permissions for the Winnt\system32 directory are such that...<more>
You will need to add some tech members to the defined default group. You can configure email to be sent to any number of techs who are configured in a particular group. ...<more>
To fix this problem, log into the tech+Center as each of the pre-assign tech accounts - Config, Admin and Tech, as listed in the install guide. Once you log in, then cli...<more>
To configure this type of email notification control, one will have to directly edit the DoTCaseform.asp script in the TechCenter directory and the DoCaseForm.asp script ...<more>
Some users have been able to solve this problem by setting user Everyone to have full control for the entire web+center directory and all of the subdirectories. If you v...<more>
Some user can get the system working but clicking on the Administration button gives an error. This has been fixed in some installation by downloading the Web+Center app...<more>
There is a known problem in the 3.5 Beta Access Upgrade Script. It can be fixed by moving the two lines that open the database connection around line 98 (see below) ...<more>
This can be easily changed by editing the TCaseform.asp module in the Techcenter directory. The size of these text boxes are defined in lines 633, 638, 666, and 669. Yo...<more>
Yes.... to do this you must use a double tag characters (two greater than symbols and two less than symbols. The code will replace these with single tag when displaying ...<more>
Some users experience connecting to the database and especially making mulitple connections to the database back to back or rapidly. This can be confirmed using the inst...<more>
The sort order for categories is based on the category number and is not set up to be alphabetically sorted. To change the sort order to alphabetical for the category dr...<more>
One can host more than one instance of Web+Center on a single server by changing the following files. For licensed user, one must purchase an additional license agreemen...<more>
If no domain administrator for the server is logged in, IIS web server can create this error that will require rebooting the machine. This is a know MS issue between the...<more>
There are IIS web server issues while attempting to run Web+Center on Windows 2000 (professional/server) with FAT partitions. When the Disk drive has FAT partitions, it ...<more>
An error maybe reported when pressing the mycases button or when logging in the top frame. The error line is 144 in the mycases.asp module. This can be fixed by setting...<more>
We have created a script called ImportLDAP.asp and DoImportLDAP.asp located in the techcenter directory on new installations. This script must first be customized accor...<more>
To do, add the following three lines into the DoRegistration.asp starting at line 61. This file is located in the customercenter directory. Edit this file with a common ...<more>
There is a missing default value for one of the fields in the groups table for the SQL*Server version. The new case notify field must be set for default of 0. To do, us...<more>
When trying to register with the customer+center as a user, I receive the following error:
Error Type:
Provider (0x80004005)
Unspecified error
...<more>
We have created a special set of tools to help Web+Center users stay current with the latest Web+Center versions with enhancement and bug fixes. To see which files are o...<more>
To fix this problem, copy the LANG-ENGLISH-US.INC file from the techcenter directory to both the Customercenter and Businesscenter directories and run the pages again.
No. The product will not run under Windows 98. The Personal Web Server appears to have problems running our ISAPI web server DLL and we do not support this platform. I...<more>
To do this, one must enable and configure some code that already exists in DoTCaseform.asp module (Tech+Center) and the DoCaseForm.asp module (Customer+center). For the D...<more>
This error may appear if your reply to email address or domain name is not valid. We got this error when our reply to email address was incorrectly defined as support@in...<more>
Configuring the SQL*Server version is more complicated than the Access database version for various reasons. Listed below are some of the common problem users experience...<more>
Not requiring a password on the customer+Center login is now an web-based configurable option under Administration.. system configuration menu.. Other configuration optio...<more>
To help solve installation and configuration issues that vary across the numerous IIS web server versions and various database options (Access or SQL*Server), we have cre...<more>
There is a flag setting some of the customer+center *.asp page script that initially turned on return receipt but we have turned it off. There is a line that says:
<...<more>
This feature has been implemented in version 2.5. It can be found by
(1) Click on administration button
(2) Click on System Configuration Link
(3) Click on C...<more>
This is caused when the webcenter application is installed under the wwwroot directory tree and special directory permissions are applied to all directories under that di...<more>
This error will occur when the SMTP mail component from Software Artisans is not installed as listed in the installation documentation. The SMTP ASP utility that is inst...<more>
There are complete instructions for upgrading a Web+center Version 2.5 installation to a 3.0 installation including software and required database changes. Refer to the ...<more>
This was acciendently commented out in the customeroptions.asp module in the customer directory. To fix this, change the line at line number 619 (inside of the GetDataba...<more>
The userid and password in the db_define.inc files in the businesscenter, customercenter and techcenter directories, and the css_access.dat file in the techcenter directo...<more>
The file permissions for the webcenter30.mdb file are not loose enough for running under Windows 2000. If you have imported the file from an NT system, the file permissi...<more>
If a category was selected to be tech view only, it was not appearing on the tech search page. This was fixed November 29, 2000. Download new versions of Search.asp in ...<more>
No. The database (webcenter.mdb) located in the database directory is created in Access 97 format and must not be converted to Access 2000 format. If you want to create...<more>
To fix this problem you will need to add a new column to the categories table called category_index which is data type of int and set it to not allow nullls and have it b...<more>
We have created a new, optional ASP page called CSearchOneCase.asp which can be added as a link to your default.htm page in your Customercenter directory like:
If you want to compare the two Web+Center databases, possibily one that has been changed outside of the application and will not run, you can use a 3rd party tool availab...<more>
This can be accomplished by adding the following code into the ASP module called DoCaseForm.asp found in the customercenter directory. Put these 4 lines into this module...<more>
When submitting a new customer in Techcenter or a new user in customercenter, a "The page cannot be
displayed" HTTP 500.100 error comes up. Also, after logging into...<more>
This was random occuring error in the DoCaseForm.asp module which was fixed by a new database query. New versions of the DoCaseForm.asp module from the checkversion.asp ...<more>
The Web+Center application is an ASP based application and virtual directories must be configure that allow scripting and IIS must be configured to allow ASP pages to be ...<more>
The Administration button uses a non ASP web environment called ISAPI, which is a compiled C++ dll. This module accesses the database and requires a ODBC connection be ...<more>
We were able to create the problem. The CellEmail code was being tested for ToCellEmail and not CellEmail. The condition would never be met and the email never sent. Fix ...<more>
To add a new tech, the license key code uses the a special C++ Compiled ISAPI dll called techsupp.dll. To run this Create User in the techcenter to work properly on this...<more>
After upgrading from version 3.5 to 4.0 the "Case" form shows multiple instances of the same category and the items in the category are shown to be split between the two ...<more>
The 4.0 system allows you to configure a FROM organization name in your emails. This is blank by default with the 4.0 and must be filled in before it run. To enter in y...<more>
A problem was identified when users upgrade from 3.5 concerning categories. The 4.0 version support options to allow category lists to be ordered but this require that t...<more>
To solve this problem,
(1) click on Administration and add at least one tech support group with the Create Support group function.
(2)Click on Administration and...<more>
It appears that some 3.5 databases may be missing a column in the categories called category_index. Open up the database directly and the categories table and add an aut...<more>
MS recommends that on the webserver the Parent Paths facility should be switched off for additional security – please see technical article Q226474. This will cause web+...<more>
A link is provided in an email to the customer that allows them to quickly go directly to the support case rather than logging in and then selecting the case number. The...<more>
It appear that some cell phone provided (T-Mobile in particular) requires that the Mailer.charset be set to 2 instead of the default setting of Mailer.charset = 1. Setti...<more>
It may be necessary to set some file permissions for the Web+Center files to enable the Web+Center to properly run. To do this with XP, one should use the Tools.. Folder...<more>
Zone Alarm Firewall may not permit Web+Center cookies from being set. To verify if browser cookies are being properly set, try running the installation configuration tes...<more>
A version of Report component was released with a bug for version 5.0 that cases it to report an error in line 243. A IF can be added to the beginning of that line or a ...<more>
If you installed Web+Center originally on one machine and then copied the file directory to another machine, there is one file that is installed as part of the original i...<more>
This is an known issue with IIS6 and more information about this web server issue should be referenced by looking at MS knowledgebase article 316112. If a server name co...<more>
After installing Microsoft Software Update Service "SUS" which automatically install the IIS Lockdown Tool and URL Scanner. I found that my Help Desk application stop fun...<more>
For some that originally downloaded version 3.1, there is one missing database field that might have to be added manually. The field that might be missing is a column ca...<more>
With Windows 2003 and site server and SQL as the backend database,you must configure Web+Center to connect to the database using Windows Authentication and not the normal...<more>
You need to first figure out which category you want to require and get that category number (like C1, C2, etc). Then put that number into the expression below. The exam...<more>
There are known issues with both Norton Anti-Virus and Mcaffee Antivirus script blocking/diable features that will prevent the file upload feature from working properly. ...<more>
Article PS030911112
Windows 2003 upload size limit - error 800a0001
Problem Description
Windows 2003 by default limits upload sizes to 200 KB for ASP pages. W...<more>
Tech Search engine gives ASP error when searching for Knowledge base cases that are scheduled cases since the DoSearch.asp has a SQL query that is missing one of the fie...<more>
McAfee (8.0i) had updated itself and shut down the port. Solved problem by right clicking on the McAfee Shield in the task bar. Selected VirusScan Console. Right clicked ...<more>
This error has only been reported by SQL 2000 database users when first installing and configuring Web+Center. This appears to be due to the SQL script that loads the de...<more>
The knowledge base is created by mapping each word from the case fields (One line description, history, summary and resolution) into a table that associate that word as e...<more>
If you get the error:
Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]The text, ntext, and image data types cannot be used in the WHERE, HAVING, or ON clause, except wi...<more>
Versions previous to version 3.5 were putting non-null empty string values in the Case_Summary and Case_Resolution fields for each case ticket by mistake. When a custome...<more>
Some users experience a problem running the login script and it appear to fail on the read file stream ASP functions. To bypass this function, edit the default.htm file ...<more>
There were two duplicate form tags in the EditConfiguration.asp module that were causing problem with versions of IE 5.5. We have released a new version of this module. ...<more>
With the difficulty of getting static IP address for your webserver, one vendor that we know has created the software that will allow a user to host a web server, and the...<more>
With some Windows 2000 users that have anti-virus software install, the Tech+Center Login page will simply hang or time out. This is due to a ASP FileSystemObject read o...<more>
Many of the installation issues with our product are primarily configuration issues with IIS and other database/IIS security permissions issues. We recommend users to al...<more>
If you want to completely remove the options to allow your customers to search for cases in the knowledge base, you can make the following edits and the option will not b...<more>
This error has been found to be related to the when the Software Artisans SMTP mail utility has not been installed into the default location and if it is installed into a...<more>
There are two methods now available to determine if your Web+Center installation has all of the current released software. The first tool that is available is called Che...<more>
If the administration button does not work, first check all of the file permissions for the entire web+center folder and reset any file security permissions to just every...<more>
The Tech's Open cases Page (My Cases) or mycases.asp can be called with a sortby parameter as a querystring variable.
To change the behavior of the My Cases button, e...<more>
It appears that the default option with Norton Anti-virus will disable some ASP script function, particular those that attempt to save files on your harddrive like Create...<more>
To show only a customers assets when the customers performs an asset search in the customer+Center, perform the following simple customization. Uncomment line 584 in the...<more>
This may occur if you have removed all of the initial default techs accounts and then attempted to add some new one back. The program determines the highest CSS number a...<more>
User groups are configured only in the business+center by going to the http://(hostname)/business30/ and clicking on the user categories. User categories are used in the ...<more>
Its was relative to national (russian) language words only. On SQL Server 2000 create new database as described in installation manual
with appropriate locale - in my...<more>
If you are having issues connecting to the database and have verified you have run all of the tests (installtest.htm in tech30 virtual directory) and reset all of the per...<more>
Although we don't recommend especially if your organization grows or if that one tech is NOT daily checking for their cases, the case could not be properly dispatch and m...<more>
This problem has been verified by our support staff on December 19, 2001 and an update to the DoTCaseform.asp module in the techcenter has been updated. Obtain a new ver...<more>
The white board can be edit by pressing the administration button, then pressing the edit user page and email message link. The first text box is where you can edit the white board.
If your Administration button is giving an HTTP 500 error or other page error, then the ISAPI dll is not running properly. The administration button uses a different web...<more>
This is due to the virtual directory settings for the techcenter (tech30) directory not set to both script and execute permissions. You will get this error if it is only...<more>
For SQL 2000, the LoadWC35Defaults.sql script will create two errors when attempting to load the default data if you are using SQL 2000 instead of SQL*Server 7. This has...<more>
There are three reasons we have discovered by this button and special ISAPI fails. Please try all of these options to make this button work. This button does use a diff...<more>
We have created a file called jmail.asp that contains a SendEmail() Subroutine subsitute for the existing functions that call the Software Artisans Emailer utility.
<...<more>
It appears that some of IE security patch/hot fixes, Q313675 and 316059 and 319182 cause the cookie operations to fail at the browser level for IE. One work around is to...<more>