Offline mode

A majority of mission-critical services running on Web servers include key concerns of Internet access and availability. The availability includes two potential issues:

Server availability
Client Internet access

NiceLabelWeb Printing application is running as a client named NiceLabel Web Client. An active Internet connection is necessary to run the application in online mode. Web Printing also supports offline mode, so you can run your applications even without an Internet connection. In this case, Web Printing application is installed on the local disk and runs as a standalone application.

Enabling Offline Mode

Install the NiceLabel Web Client on your computer. It serves as a reliable backup for times when your Internet connection fails and prevents server access.

Run Web Client in the offline mode when you lose your Internet connection:

Enable the option Remember me the last time you signed in.
Start your desktop Web Client (from the Start menu).
Run your last-used solution in your desktop Web Client.
Web Client will notify you that it runs in offline mode.

Note

If you lose your internet connection while running the Web Client, an error occurs. Start your desktop Web Client to enter offline mode.

Database data is limited to the last database table used or the last queried data batch that was displayed when the client was used with an Internet connection.

Web Printing logs all printing activities to the Control Center. When the Internet connection fails, and the user uses the offline client to print, the log of print events is not lost. The next time the user is connected to the Internet and opens the offline printing client, the past printing activity log is uploaded to the Control Center.

Changing the offline time period

By default, the user can run the application in offline mode for a maximum of 24 hours.

While the user is in the offline mode, the information about printing events is still collected and all data is kept locally. When the connection to the Control Center server is re-established all logs are sent back to NiceLabelControl Center.

Information about user print events is not lost.

To change the offline time period, do the following:

Login to the desktop of the Windows Server where NiceLabel Web Printing is installed (Web Printing site).
Open the file web.config in a text editor.
Navigate to the section <appSettings></appSettings> and insert the following key:

<appSettings>

<add key="OutOfBrowserOfflinePeriod" value="1"/>

</appSettings>
Replace value 1 with your custom number of days.

Note

The maximum number of days you can configure for the offline mode is 30.