Rainbow Portal

Welcome to Rainbow, the OpenSource Implementation of MicroSoft's IBUYSPY Portal

Rainbow FAQ's

About the FAQs

Suggestions for the FAQ's? Want to help out? Email me, chris “at“ cftechconsulting.com

Beginner FAQ:How to get started.
Installation FAQ: Documentation of common error messages and how to resolve them.
Administration FAQ: How to do admin related tasks such as add a module, setup multiple portals, etc etc.
Developer FAQ: How rainbow differs from IBuySpy. Current rainbow common practices to follow. When a feature will be implemented
Troubleshooting FAQ: ex. Document module fails for files > 5mb, stuff like that.

Beginner FAQ

Q: How do I logon with Administrative Access after I've installed Rainbow?

Q: What databases are supported for Rainbow?

Q: What is the fastest way to get support for my installation of Rainbow?

Q: What is the lastest Rainbow release level?

Q: When I attempt to use the Products module I get an error message that states that "The IListSource does not contain any data sources. How do I resolve this issue?

Q: Where can I download the code for the Rainbow Portal?

Q: Where can I get hosting for my Rainbow Portal??

Installation FAQ

Q: How do I remove the "Section currently under Maintenance" error message so that I can see the real error message?

Q: How do I upgrade my Rainbow portal?

Q: How to move my database from one server to another.

Q: I get an error when I run Rainbow. "Unable to get your db version please run version script against your db and restart your web applicationUpdate/scripts/ folder and run 1317set.bat"

Q: What do I need to have installed to run the Rainbow Portal on my website?

Q: What should my connection string be like if I do not use a local instance of SQL Server or if I am running Rainbow on paid-hosting/ISP's server.

Q: When I run setup.bat I get the following errors. "Msg 15401, Level 11, State 1, Server TESTSPS, Procedure sp_grantlogin, Line 41 Windows NT user or group 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE' not found.

Q: When I run the Rainbow application I get the error "SQL Server does not exist or access denied.

Q: Why do I get an "Access Denied" error under Windows 2003

Administration FAQ

Q: How do I login as admin after I remove the login module from the Portal?

Developer FAQ

Q: How do I write a Installer for my new Module.

Trouble Shooting FAQ

Q: Documents Module:: Upload fails for files larger then 5 megabytes

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