{"id":3200,"date":"2014-09-09T22:01:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T02:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflowinventory.com\/support\/article\/3200\/what-if-i-want-to-work-offline\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:12:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:12:41","slug":"what-if-i-want-to-work-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/article\/55619570\/what-if-i-want-to-work-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"What if I want to work offline?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So what if you need your computer to work without an internet connection? If you&#8217;ve purchased an inFlow On-Premise license, it can be authorized to work offline and all it takes is a one-time set-up. Even if your computer reconnects to the internet at any point after, the offline activation still remains and you do not need to re-do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Please note that if your hardware changes significantly, if you reinstall or update the program, or if you purchase additional licenses, you will need to repeat this procedure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Article shortcuts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><a href=\"#To-activate-inFlow-offline-with-internet\">To activate inFlow offline (with a temporary internet connection)<\/a><\/li><li><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><a href=\"#To-activate-inFlow-offline-without-internet\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#To-activate-inFlow-offline-without-internet\">To activate inFlow offline (without any access to the internet)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"To-activate-inFlow-offline-with-internet\"><strong>To activate inFlow offline (with a temporary internet connection)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can temporarily connect the computer to the internet, do that before you start the offline activation, this will make the process much easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>On your SERVER computer (if you have only one computer running inFlow it is the server) go to your Windows Start &gt; type in &#8220;inFlow Utilities&#8221; and press Enter. This will launch the inFlow Utilities tool.<\/li><li>Once it&#8217;s running click the option &#8220;Make inFlow work offline&#8221;.<\/li><li>If your computer is temporarily connected to the internet this will authorize your computer for offline access.<br>\n<blockquote><p><strong>PLEASE NOTE<\/strong>: The downloaded certificate is <strong>specific<\/strong> to the hardware on the inFlow server &#8212; you cannot use this certificate for any other computer. If you&#8217;re having trouble accessing this page (files not appearing, unable to log in) please try accessing it through a different internet browser such as Google Chrome, Firefox etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li><li>Restart your computer.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"To-activate-inFlow-offline-without-internet\"><strong>To activate inFlow offline (without any access to the internet)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>On your SERVER computer (if you have only one computer running inFlow it is the server) go to your Windows Start > type in &#8220;inFlow Utilities&#8221; and press Enter. This will launch the inFlow Utilities tool.<\/li><li>Once it&#8217;s running click the option &#8220;Make inFlow work offline&#8221;.<\/li><li>You will be asked to save an &#8220;offline request file&#8221; to a portable drive (USB, flash drive, thumb-drive, etc).<\/li><li>Bring the key to a computer with working internet connection, and go to the\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/manage.inflowinventory.com\/offline-activation\" target=\"_blank\">offline activation site here.<\/a><\/li><li>On that website, click the &#8220;Upload offline request file&#8221; button and browse to your USB drive to upload the file created in step 3.<\/li><li>On the same page, it should provide a download link for the offline certificate. Download it to your USB drive and bring it back to the <strong>original<\/strong> computer where you saved the offline request file.<br> <blockquote><p><strong>PLEASE NOTE<\/strong>: The downloaded certificate is <strong>specific<\/strong> to the hardware on the inFlow server &#8212; you cannot use this certificate for any other computer. If you&#8217;re having trouble accessing this page (files not appearing, unable to log in) please try accessing it through a different internet browser such as Google Chrome, Firefox etc.<\/p><\/blockquote> <\/li><li>Back at inFlow Utilities on the offline computer, click &#8220;Import Certificate File&#8221; and then browse to the certificate file in your USB drive.<\/li><li>Restart your computer.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Your offline activation should be successful and you can now use inFlow offline, in the edition you have purchased!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what if you need your computer to work without an internet connection? If you&#8217;ve purchased an inFlow On-Premise license, it can be authorized to work offline and all it takes is a one-time set-up. Even if your computer reconnects to the internet at any point after, the offline activation still remains and you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[20,32],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29115,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/29115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}