Verifying That You Can Use The Breeze Manager And Send E-Mail Notifications; Verifying That You Can Use The Breeze Presentation Platform - MACROMEDIA BREEZE Installation Manual

Verifying that you can use the Breeze Manager and send
e-mail notifications
To verify that you can use the Breeze Presentation platform and that it can send e-mail using your e-mail
server, you'll create a new Breeze user, send an e-mail notification to the user, and then confirm that the e-
mail was received.
To create a new user and send an e-mail notification:
Click the Users tab on the Breeze Manager home page.
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In the Users and Groups page, click New User.
2
The New User Information page appears and requires the following information:
First Name
Last Name
Email (your e-mail address, which is used as your login name)
Password (this must be four characters or more in length)
Enter the required information using your e-mail address in the Email text box, and make sure that
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the Email the New User Account Information, Login and Password option is selected.
Under the Group Memberships heading, assign the user to the Account Administrators group and
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click Save.
Allow enough time for an e-mail notification to arrive, and check your e-mail.
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If you received the notification, your Breeze Presentation platform is functional and can send e-
mails using your e-mail server.
The new-user notification contains the following text and URL:
To start using your Macromedia Breeze account, use the following link:
http://ADMIN_HOST/common/support/course/startmain.htm
Here, ADMIN_HOST is the value you set for the
platform custom.ini configuration file. For more information about the
property, see the table of configuration properties in
Platform" on page
The URL takes you to the Breeze Welcome page, from which you can download the Breeze Plug-In
for PowerPoint, which is required in the next section.

Verifying that you can use the Breeze Presentation platform

To verify that you can use the Breeze Presentation platform, you'll send a PowerPoint presentation to the
Breeze Presentation platform for compilation into a Breeze Flash presentation and then view it.
Before you can send a PowerPoint presentation to the Breeze Presentation platform, you must install the
Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint on a computer that meets the following requirements:
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PowerPoint is already installed on the computer.
•
The Breeze Presentation platform is not currently installed on the computer and is not going to be
installed later, as long as the plug-in is in use.
To create a Breeze presentation and view it:
Go to the URL that you received in the new-user notification that was described in the preceding
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section (http://ADMIN_HOST/common/support/course/startmain.htm).
The URL takes you to a page with the heading "Welcome to Macromedia Breeze" and a link for
downloading the Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint.
Click the download link.
2
A login window for the download appears.
Log in with the e-mail address and password of the user you created in step 2 of
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can use the Breeze Manager and send e-mail notifications" on page
The Macromedia Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint page appears and gives instructions for installing
the plug-in.
Follow the instructions for installing the plug-in.
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If you do not have a PowerPoint presentation that you can send to the Breeze Presentation platform
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for compilation into a Breeze Flash presentation, create a presentation of one or two slides and save
the presentation.
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property in the Breeze Presentation
ADMIN_HOST
"Configuring the Breeze Presentation
23.
configuration
ADMIN_HOST
"Verifying that you