Click the desktop icon to start the Metatude Project Manager, a screen will appear requesting the name of the Server (or IP address) as well as your Username and Password to connect you to the Metatude Dialogue Server (this information can be supplied by your administrator).
| The MPM is a client of the server. Multiple clients can be connected to the server concurrently (multi-user functionality) which means several users can work with the MPM at the same time. The connection from the Project Manager to the Dialogue Server is made via the network over tcp/ip.
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After entering the information you can connect to the dialogue server by pressing the OK button. If you entered the correct information and have established a connection to the server, the Project Manager will accept your attempt to login and display the first window of the application.
The Project Manager will remember the last server you logged into and enter by default this data in the connection window the next time a user tries to make a connection. The Project Manager also remembers the user name that you used to login the last time, and will also enter it in the connection window. This means that if you login to the same server as the last server that you used, you only have to enter the password.
Figure 10: Login screen
If the Project Manager cannot connect to the central Metatude Dialogue Server, there are several possible reasons for this. When an attempt to login fails or there is no sign of activity, the Project Manager will display one of the following error reports:
1. "The server with name / IP-address [name/IP-address] was not found."
This error will occur when the server is not found on the network, or when the machine with that address was found but is not running the MDS on the port number where it is expected to be.
2. "Incorrect login: your username and/or password are incorrect."
This error report will be given when the server was found, and a network connection was established, but the server did not accept the
login. The user will not be told whether the problem is in the username or password.
Proxy server
Metatude Project Manager can connect to a Metatude Dialogue Server even when the MPM is located behind a proxy/firewall. In this case, click options in the login window. This will expand the window and show other connection parameters. If a proxy server address and port is specified, then MPM will try to connect to MDS using the specified address/port as the proxy server's address/port.
If MPM is closed then the proxy server address and port are not stored. However, if the user checks the "Always use proxy" check box, then this value is stored in the preference file when MPM is shut down and in the subsequent login attempts; MPM uses the previously specified proxy address and port to connect to MDS.
Figure 11: Login screen when using a proxy server