The SharePoint 2013/16 Flex Installer will only work for a new fresh install of the 2013/16 Flex product. This is not an upgrade for our 2010 Flex product.
The 2013/16 Flex install process is largely automated with only a few manual steps. Once you download our Flex install package from a provided location you can go to the install procedure.
Installation Steps
- Within SharePoint Central Administration Create a Web application and Site collection. Use whatever naming convention you wish. For example, you can use the Team site as your Top Level site. Or if you currently have your own “Intranet” site or another Web site Collection, then use that location.
- Next Download the 2013/16 Flex Installer, extract all files into a “Flex install” folder then run the installFlex.exe (part of our Flex Install Package) directly from that extraction folder.
- This runs setup.bat which not only prompts for the site collection address but will also ask for the sub-site Name and URL as it will CREATE Flex sub-site itself.
Note: SharePoint 2013/16 no longer provides a visible “Blank site” template so the script will have to use PowerShell to create the sub-site directly during Flex install process.
Note: The sub-site Name that was provided will show up on the Top Level Team Site top link bar. Flex Url will be the sub-site URL, as per usual.
Example: if the site collection URL provided is http://thisserver:8000 and the sub-site for Flex is “crm” then the sub-site created will have an address of http://thisserver:8000/crm this will be suggested by the installer script. All you need to do is enter the Flex sub-site name at the URL prompt such as: “crm” –BUT NOT the full URL address! See green arrow in the image below.
- Next, the script will add and deploy Flex web parts. It will add them to the solution store and deploy them by starting and ending a timer sequence for each Web Part. All processing will be visible within the command prompt window.
- Finally, the script will perform the PowerShell command to actually import Flex site. This is an automated PowerShell command. All the import details will be visible in the command prompt window during this process.
- Once the Flex site import has completed, the site will require the license key.
- Apply your temporary License Key.
- Your Flex 2013/16 is now ready for usage.