MACROMEDIA BREEZE Installation Manual - page 23

Verifying that you can use the Breeze Manager and send 

e-mail notifications

To verify that you can use the Breeze Presentation platform and that it can send e-mail using your e-mail 

server, you’ll create a new Breeze user, send an e-mail notification to the user, and then confirm that the e-

mail was received. 

To create a new user and send an e-mail notification:

1

Click the Users tab on the Breeze Manager home page.

2

In the Users and Groups page, click New User.

The New User Information page appears and requires the following information:

■

First Name

■

Last Name

■

Email (your e-mail address, which is used as your login name)

■

Password (this must be four characters or more in length)

3

Enter the required information using your e-mail address in the Email text box, and make sure that 

the Email the New User Account Information, Login and Password option is selected.

4

Under the Group Memberships heading, assign the user to the Account Administrators group and 

click Save.

5

Allow enough time for an e-mail notification to arrive, and check your e-mail. 

If you received the notification, your Breeze Presentation platform is functional and can send e-

mails using your e-mail server.

The new-user notification contains the following text and URL:

To start using your Macromedia Breeze account, use the following link: 

http://ADMIN_HOST/common/support/course/startmain.htm

Here, ADMIN_HOST is the value you set for the 

ADMIN_HOST

 property in the Breeze Presentation 

platform custom.ini configuration file. For more information about the 

ADMIN_HOST

 configuration 

property, see the table of configuration properties in 

“Configuring the Breeze Presentation 

Platform” on page 17

.

The URL takes you to the Breeze Welcome page, from which you can download the Breeze Plug-In 

for PowerPoint, which is required in the next section.

Verifying that you can use the Breeze Presentation platform

To verify that you can use the Breeze Presentation platform, you’ll send a PowerPoint presentation to the 

Breeze Presentation platform for compilation into a Breeze Flash presentation and then view it.

Before you can send a PowerPoint presentation to the Breeze Presentation platform, you must install the 

Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint on a computer that meets the following requirements:

•

PowerPoint is already installed on the computer.

•

The Breeze Presentation platform is not currently installed on the computer and is not going to be 

installed later, as long as the plug-in is in use. 

To create a Breeze presentation and view it:

1

Go to the URL that you received in the new-user notification that was described in the preceding 

section (http://ADMIN_HOST/common/support/course/startmain.htm).

The URL takes you to a page with the heading “Welcome to Macromedia Breeze” and a link for 

downloading the Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint.

2

Click the download link.

A login window for the download appears.

3

Log in with the e-mail address and password of the user you created in step 2 of 

“Verifying that you 

can use the Breeze Manager and send e-mail notifications” on page 23

.

The Macromedia Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint page appears and gives instructions for installing 

the plug-in.

4

Follow the instructions for installing the plug-in.

5

If you do not have a PowerPoint presentation that you can send to the Breeze Presentation platform 

for compilation into a Breeze Flash presentation, create a presentation of one or two slides and save 

the presentation.