Changing the default Synapse Server

There is also a video available for this walk thru. 

The Synapse Client is set up by default to connect to our demo server at www.compkarori.co.nz:8014 ( it used to be www.synapsedirect.com:8011).  However, both this address, and the user name ( which currently defaults to "Guest" ) can be altered to another default.

Say you have your own Synapse EMR server at www.synapsedirect.com:8099, and your username is Joe,

Then to customise Synapse EMR client to start with these defaults:

1. Start up the Windows Control Panel
2. Double click on System
3. Select the Advanced tab
4. Click on the "Environment Variables" button
5. You now need to create two new user variables
6. The first one is called "synapse-port" and has the value "www.synapsedirect.com:8099"
7. and the second one is called "synapse-user" and has the value "Joe"
8. Note that it is not http://www.synapsedirect.com:8099 as we are not using the http protocol

If you were setting up synapse-server on the local lan, then you might use a local private network address such as 192.168.1.1:8099 instead of the www.synapsedirect.com:8099 example above. The same applies for a VPN.

Finally, if you are running Synapse Server and Client on the same PC ( not recommended but for testing purposes you might want to do this ), you can set up another environment variable named "synapse-local" and give it the value "true".  This will then give you the option to login to the localhost ( this PC ), and then the option to connect remotely.  The localhost mode assumes a port of 8011.

There is one other variables that you can create defaults for, and that is synapse-size, and you can choose 3, 4, or 5.  This picks the default GUI size.  However, with later versions of Synapse, GUI size of 3 will no longer produce a functional screen display.