Excel Add-in for IPT

Specific settings

In some cases, like Citrix or Server installation, the user may need to set some specific settings.

This page describes theses settings.

Infront Excel Engine settings

  • "/RegServerPerUser" → Set or Clean user registries for Excel Add-in for Infront Professional Terminal.

  • "/autoupdate:no" → Deactivate auto update. yellow star

  • "/autoupdate:yes" → Activate auto update. yellow star

  • "/SetIPTMode" → Force Infront Professional Terminal mode (normally this settings is automatic, but on server installation the Infront Professional Terminal detection can fail).

  • "/connection:silent" → Don’t want to use the real time connection, using this switch will prevent the login popup.

  • "/connection:interactive" → Display the login box when the real time connection is not established (default behavior).

  • "/uninstall" → Silently uninstall the Excel Add-in for Infront Professional Terminal.

  • "/terminate" → Close Engine.

  • "/Autoclose" → Close Engine after 30 seconds with no Excel process. (From version 3.23.2)

  • "/Autoclose:no" → Disable the auto-close feature.

yellow star This settings can also be changed manually on Excel Add-in for Infront Professional Terminal settings box.

Example

Deactivate auto update:

ActionScript
%localappdata%\InfrontExcelEngine\InfrontExcelEngine.exe /autoupdate:no /terminate


More registry settings

The Excel Add-in for Infront Professional Terminal registries are located under:

ActionScript
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VB and VBA Program Settings\EfFull\Setting
  • EfSettingsLoadAddinP → Set this entry to "0", to prevent the Excel Add-in for Infront Professional Terminal initial question "Add-in is not loaded. Do you want to load it next time directly?"

Citrix

For every new Citrix user, launch the following command:

ActionScript
cd %localappdata%\InfrontExcelEngine
InfrontExcelEngine.exe /regserverperuser /autoupdate:no /setiptmode /terminate