Starting the MYPOS 8 Application

MYPOS8 will be configured to either start automatically or it will appear on your desktop as an icon. If the icon is on the desktop double click the icon to start the software.

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If the internet is accessible then the system will automatically check to see if there is a software upgrade to download, MYPOS 8 currently receives around two minor software releases a month and these are released to all MYPOS8 customers on a phased release schedule

If an upgrade is available, then the user will be asked to select or skip. Upgrade are performed by a product called Clickonce.

The core principle of ClickOnce is to bring the ease of deployment of web applications to the Windows user. In addition, ClickOnce aims to solve three other problems with conventional deployment models: the difficulty in updating a deployed application, the impact of an application to the user's computer, and the need for administrator permissions to install applications.

ClickOnce-deployed applications are considered 'low impact', in that they are installed per-user, not per-machine. No administrator privileges are required to install one of these applications. Each ClickOnce application is isolated from the other. This means one ClickOnce application is not able to 'break' another.

ClickOnce employs Code Access Security (CAS) to ensure that system functions cannot be called by a ClickOnce application from the web, ensuring the security of data and the client system in general.

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As the systems starts it will look to see if the server is available. The server is where the main database is kept. If the server is not available then the MYPOS device will use the last known good copy. This is useful to both stop problems at the till from unplugged / powered off devices and also for tills and devices that are separated such as for events, ferries, pop up shops etc.