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Revision as of 22:42, 23 March 2011

Creating Your TrackAbout Site

  • TrackAbout will create your website for you.
  • Site Name: By default we will use your domain name as your TrackAbout site name. So if your companies website is YourDomain.com we will call your trackabout site YourDomain. This is important only because then your people or your customers (if you allow your customers to access your site) can then go to YourDomain.trackabout.com to get to your site. Please let us know if you want a different name than your website domain name.
  • Customized Banner: Across the top of your TrackAbout site there is a spot for you to have a customized banner. Generally you would put your logo here or any other graphics, text or links needed to make your TrackAbout site look like your site. We generally recommend keeping the banner to about 50 pixels tall so that it does not take up too much of the screen. Also there will be 4 buttons shown off the the right side of the banner. Your graphic or background colors may go under these buttons, but the buttons must be shown. A customized banner is not required, but we do recommend one. Without a customized banner a generic 'TrackAbout' banner will be shown. The image below shows the area of the banner.
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  • Logging in: Your TrackAbout representative will create your first system administrator user for the site. You will get an email from with a link for you to set a password and then log into the site. You can log into TrackAbout in a few ways:
  1. Go to YourDomain.trackabout.com. So if your website was abc.com then you could go to abc.trackabout.com.
  2. Go to https://www.trackabout.com/public/login.aspx
  3. Go to trackabout.com and click the "Login" link in the upper right corner of this page.


Tracking

The information below is use to help you get started with a tracking project. Most importantly please contact TrackAbout Support to guide you through this process.

  • Map Product Codes This page gives you the template needed to mass map your product codes.
  • Setup your locations from the TrackAbout Config > List Locations page.
  • Setup logins for your people from the TrackAbout Config > Internal Users page. This includes setting up your truck drivers.
  • Download the software you need for your handheld computers from the Mobile Units > Software Download page.

Handheld device

Initial setup

  • Enter Date and Time, and select time zone
  • Enter a device name

Printers

under construction