Enterprise plan - Wellnomics App deployment options

Modified on Thu, 5 Sep at 9:52 AM

Installing the Wellnomics App - Windows

The Wellnomics App has been built on brand new architecture and is significantly more modern than WorkPace. This makes deployment and support much simpler.

Best practices and recommendations

The Wellnomics app by default will install to C:\%localappdata%\wellnomics of the logged-on user. This is the recommended location for installation. Deployment of the app to this recommended directory will allow for the Auto-Update feature. This enables you to receive a new release and after initial testing request Wellnomics Support to push the new version to all your current users that are actively syncing. This feature is less work on your internal IT group. If you choose to install to the C:\Program Files directory, you cannot use the automated upgrade feature, and your internal team will be responsible for managing application updates.

Install parameters and Arguments:

/VERYSILENT - silent install of the app, with no pop-ups until it's finished
/NORUN - the application will not auto start after installation. The PC needs to be restarted, or the app manually started by the user
/ALLUSERS - This will override the install location to C:\Program files

Install to default location example:

Wellnomics-x64.exe /VERYSILENT

Install to C:\Program files example:

Wellnomics-x64.exe /VERYSILENT /ALLUSERS

Uninstall from default location example:

C:\%localappdata%\Wellnomics\bin\unins000.exe /VERYSILENT

Uninstall from C:\Program Files example:

C:\Program Files\Wellnomics\bin\unins000.exe /VERYSILENT

Configuration file - Windows

For our enterprise customers you must also push a configuration file, wellnomics.ini, designed to override the default Sync URL of the application. Wellnomics Support will provide you with the ini file. The application will have an empty ini file by default this must be overwritten with the file provided by Wellnomics Support.

Supported ini file locations

The recommended best practice is to push the ini file to the install location of the Application.

C:\Program Files\Wellnomics
C:\Users\$UserName\AppData\Local\Wellnomics\bin

Installing the Wellnomics App - MacOS

Deploying the Wellnomics App for MacOS is fairly straight forward package the application along with the Plist provided by Wellnomics Support.

Configuration file - MacOS

There are two supported locations for the Plist to be placed.

- '/Library/Application\ Support/Wellnomics/wellnomics.plist'

- '~/Library/Application\ Support/Wellnomics/wellnomics.plist'

In circumstances that the customer does not have the ability to package and push a MacOS application Wellnomics can create a custom package which will self-extract the Plist file for you.

*The custom-built application will self-extract the Plist to '/Library/Application\ Support/Wellnomics/wellnomics.plist'

Getting started with Wellnomics App

Once the installation is finished users will have a small amount of first time set up to complete.

Authentication - The app will attempt to open a browser window for the user to sign into to verify their details and allow it to sync with your server.
Sit-Stand details - If you have sit-stand enabled, users will be prompted to provide details on their set up
1. Do they have a sit-stand desk, yes or no (fixed height)?
2. if yes, is it electric or manual?
3. If electric, Do they have a Wellnomics SmartLink device?
4. If yes, it will work to configure the connection.

If you are upgrading from WorkPace to the Wellnomics App, you need to remove WorkPace as the two applications are incompatible.

Removing WorkPace

Before the Wellnomics App can be installed, WPC must be uninstalled. Unfortunately WPC has a known issue with the uninstaller. It's inconsistent not reliably reproduceable so we cannot build a solution into WPC itself. However, we've developed several methods to make removing WPC much simpler for IT teams. These solutions are designed so IT Admins can easily deploy them via most deployment services. They include:

The WorkPace Removal Tool - Windows
Customized WPC removal and App upgrade powershell scripts

All of these methods will remove WPC, it just depends on how you want to manage the deployment.

The tool is an application that can be packaged and pushed to systems, silently, and will brute force the removal of WPC.
The powershell scripts can also be packaged and pushed, but will remove WPC by running the regular uninstaller and checking for any missed registry entries that must be removed before installing the Wellnomics App. It will then automatically download and install your Wellnomics App, silently.
Both methods have extensive logging so your IT teams can see if there have been any unexpected failures.

While the removal tool is publicly available, the Powershell scripts need to be customized and will require you to contact Wellnomics Support for assistance.