[Qgis-user] Deploying Qgis in an organisation.

[Alex Mandel]

There is a slight speed penalty depending on your network to putting
shared applications on a network drive. You might want to consider using
a deployment tool like Puppet to keep the plugins folder up to date and
in sync across machines.

-Alex

On 02/14/2015 03:20 AM, Bo Victor Thomsen wrote:
> Hi Mats (Old mapinfo-user ??)
> 
> Take a look at this article:
> http://www.qgis.nl/2014/04/22/qgis-in-de-klas-onder-windows/?lang=en. It
> explains how to use the --configuration qualifier to make a shared
> environment, where each user has a private directory for plugins and
> set-up. If you use --configpath it's not necessary to do a "proper"
> installation of QGIS - just copy the different qgis directories to the
> user-pc - or leave the directory at a central network based share.
> 
> You can distribute your QGIS installation to the local user-pc's for
> performance reasons and do some cmd.exe woodoo to check for updates each
> time the user starts QGIS.
> 
> Regards
> Bo Victor Thomsen
> AestasGIS
> Denmark
> 
> Den 14-02-2015 kl. 11:54 skrev Mats Elfström:
>> Hi all!
>> I am looking for hints on how to deploy Qgis as a desktop GIS tool for
>> a limited number of users.
>> My idea is to have a common program repository with plugins, a map and
>> layer catalogue, and some basic settings, but still allow individual
>> users to create their own work environment.
>> In this way, updates and configuration changes need only be applied
>> centrally, and distributed on program start to each user.
>> This is a windows environment on a shared corporate network.
>> I wish to avoid a manual installation for each user, which would be
>> impossible to maintain and get out of sync at once.
>>
>> Regards, Mats.E
>>