FAQs, upgrades, tips, and contact information

A resource for users of qd documents software

FAQs

The product is very new, so we haven't collected enough questions to have any that we can truly call "frequent." But as time goes on, we'll build a list.

Upgrades

The current version of qd documents is 1.0. No upgrades have yet been released.

Tips

Using multiple qd documents files
You can have more than one copy of the qd documents application on your computer. The qd documents application is a combination of our software and your data, wrapped up together. So if there's a reason to sub-divide your data, you can do that by maintaining more than one copy of the qd applications application.

Why would you do that? There are two situations where that might make sense.

The first (and most likely) situation is when you are sharing qd documents databases with a large number of users -- using a server -- and where those users are themselves subdivided into smaller groups. For example, your firm might have separate teams for handling medical malpractice and products liability cases. In that situation, you may want to have two instances of the qd documents application on your server -- one for the products liability team and another for the medical malpractice team.

Subdividing your databases this way makes it easier to manage your users and your databases.

The second situation occurs when you have a lot of databases and the size of your qd documents file gets very large. Then you may want to create a second qd documents file so that no single file gets too big. A very large file is harder to copy, move, and back up, and -- if it's really big -- it may run slower as a single big file than it would as two smaller files.

A single qd documents license allows you to install the software on a single computer for access by a single user. So each user requires a qd documents license. However, that doesn't prevent you from having multiple qd documents files on a single computer, as long as each user of the files has a license.

How do I do that?

There are two ways to start a new qd documents file. First, you can run the qd documents installer and install a new, clean copy of the qd documents file (just be sure you don't overwrite your existing copy -- put the new copy in a new directory). We suggest that you give each qd documents directory a name that clearly identifies the databases that it contains. For example, you might call one directory qd medical and the other directory qd products. Note: There's no need to reinstall the FileMaker Pro database engine. You need only one copy of the engine to power all your qd documents files.

Your second option is to always keep a clean copy of the qd documents application on hand. Then all you need to do is copy that directory into a new location, give it a name, and you're ready to go.

In both cases, when you first launch a new copy of the qd documents software, you'll need to re-enter your registration name and number to unlock the copy.