General Download Notes
DWB Software packages are distributed as .zip archives, including the binaries and a help file.
- In order to read and print some documentation you may require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader
- To run the Diversity Workbench software, the .Net Framework must be available on your PC. The newest versions of the Diversity Workbench clients are built for .NET version 4.8, which is delivered automatically with the Windows update of Windows 7 and higher.
- The Diversity Workbench database software (not the DWB client software) requires the MS SQL Server. For recommended MS SQL Server version see under How to create a personal local DWB environment.
The newest versions of the Diversity Workbench clients can be downloaded as as zipped setup (MSI) file. To run this setup file wou will require administrator rights for your Windows operating system. The software and the user manual will be installed in the "Program files" folder of your computer. If you do not have administrator rights for your computer or want to use several versions of the Diversity Workbench clients in parallel, use the "Alternative download", which provides a zipped program folder and proceed as described below.
After download unpack the .zip archive to a local working directory. Please use a generally accessible working directory, e.g. in the "Documents" folder or at the desktop. Do NOT use the "Program files" folder, because this directory usually does not grant write permissions to the application and normal Windows accounts.
Before you start the application for the first time please open the manual file, e.g. "DiversityCollection.chm". You might get a warning that the file could be harmful because it was loaded from the internet. Before you click "open", deactivate the option to do this check every time when the file is opened. Otherwise the help file content will not be displayed and you will not be able to use the function key F1 to open the context specific help.
Alternatively you may right-click the help file to unblock it (see image below).
Unblock CHM file
In order to minimize the potential misuse of help pages, Microsoft has disabled the presentation of chm-embedded HTML pages residing on non-local drives. This has taken place in 2005 with Win XP security update KB896358. Thus, the help file content will not be displayed on network drives!
If you use different applications of the Diversity Workbench, please extract the files of each application to an own local directory. Do not place the application directory in the "Program files" path of the windows system, otherwise you might get problems due to missing access rights.
For tablet users: F Tasten in Windows 8.1
see also Technical documentation at a glance
