Save Time by Deploying RE Integration Files

Two of the most time consuming things with any client-server application are installations and updates. If you have both Patron Edge and The Raiser's Edge, you currently have an additional step after installing an RE workstation (or updating a PE workstation) to copy some files into the The Raiser's Edge\DRE folder and register a DLL. Without performing this step after each PE update, you risk breaking the integration with RE:Export. In order to make life a little bit easier, I have created a small tool that will allow you to perform this process with one click.  In a nutshell, it does the following:

1. Locates your Patron Edge Deploy folder
2. Determines where The Raiser's Edge is installed on the workstation
3. Creates the DRE folder if necessary
4. Adds CustomNodes.xml, overwriting the existing copy if necessary
5. Adds and registers PEExport.dll, overwriting the existing copy if necessary

While not an official tool, it's simple and safe to use. Just download it from here, unzip and run it on a workstation to deploy the files. System administrators could even have this run at startup as part of a startup policy script to push the files after updating the server. Now workstation users can just launch Patron Edge to run the main update and you don't have to walk 15 users through the steps of deploying the additional files.