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title: "Terminal Services, Published Apps & Procare Check In"
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# Terminal Services, Published Apps & Procare Check In

How to set up shortcuts for Procare Check-In within a virtual desktop environment (such as Terminal Services) or as a published app.

## Check-In Program for Multiple Locations

If you are running Procare Check-In software (CheckInNet.exe) in a virtual desktop environment or using published apps and intend to let people check into different locations, you’ll need to a way to launch Check-In for the appropriate “school” in Procare.

1. Set up Check-In one of two ways:
  1. Separate Desktops/Separate Shortcuts
  2. Publish the App Multiple Times
2. At the Check-In Options screen: Set the Default Location.
3. To launch the program, each user dbl-clicks their Check-In icon.

![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Attendance+Tracker/TerminalServicesPublishedApps&ProcareCheckIn_1130_1.png)

## Separate Desktops/Separate Shortcuts

With this approach, each user in the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment (such as Terminal Services/Citrix) must have their own desktop, not a shared desktop. Add a unique identifier to the *Target* of the Check-In shortcut for each location. If you had locations in several cities, you could add abbreviations to the end of the shortcut *Target* line to indicate the location, like this:

**Medford Location**: “C:\program files\procare\client\checkinnet.exe” **mdf** **Salem Location**: “C:\program files\procare\client\checkinnet.exe” **slm** **Portland Location**: “C:\program files\procare\client\checkinnet.exe” **pdx**

**Important:** The target ends in a quotation mark. There must be a space between the quote mark and the unique identifier, which is outside the quotes (image below). The identifier cannot have spaces and is limited to 65 characters.

![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Attendance+Tracker/TerminalServicesPublishedApps&ProcareCheckIn_1130_2.png)

## Publish App Multiple Times

If Application Deployment software is used, such as *Microsoft Terminal Services Remote Apps or Citrix XenApp*, the command line argument will need to be set for each custom deployment of the Check-In program. The command line argument is a variable used to store settings for Check-In. You may use any naming convention as long as there are no spaces. Here’s an example:

**Medford Location**: command line argument = **mdf** **Salem Location**: command line argument = **slm** **Portland Location**: command line argument = **pdx** In this case, the Check-In application would need to be published 3 times to cover all sites and then be distributed to the appropriate locations.

## Set Default Location through Check-In Options

1. Dbl-click the Check-In shortcut to open the Check-In screen.
2. Dbl-click anywhere in the gray border area around the logo (or press Esc on your keyboard) then click *Options*.

![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Attendance+Tracker/TerminalServicesPublishedApps&ProcareCheckIn_1130_3.png)

1. At the top under *School Info* select the location people will check into with this shortcut.

![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Attendance+Tracker/TerminalServicesPublishedApps&ProcareCheckIn_1130_4.png)

1. Click *Exit* to return to the Check-In screen. To get to the desktop, dbl-click in the gray border area around the Check In screen (or press the *Esc* key on the keyboard) to bring up the choices of *Cancel*, *Options*, and *Exit*.

![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Attendance+Tracker/TerminalServicesPublishedApps&ProcareCheckIn_1130_5.png)

1. Click *Exit*.