Technical Support 

EXPRESS and START database is an SQL Local database and it’s the .mdf file located in the folder

“…\Documents\ManWinWin Software\ManWinWin Express\Database”

To ensure you don’t lose your data if your computer encounters any problem, make a periodic copy(one a week for example, or as often as you wish) of the .mdb file located in the folder

“…\Documents\ManWinWin Software\ManWinWin Express\Database”

Store this copy in a safe place, it can be on a physical storage device or a personal cloud storage area (for example Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive, iCloud, etc.)

Click on the User icon, followed by the “Preferências” option, select your chosen language and click OK.

The alert message refers to the lack of access to the .rpt files that ManWinWin needs to preview/print a report.

During the ManWinWin Express installation, a folder called “ManWinWin Express” is created. This folder can be accessed via this desktop pathway: ““...\My Documents\ManWinWin Software\ManWinWin Express\”

In this “ManWinWin Express” folder, there is another folder called “Reports”. In the “Preferences” window, under “File Location – Printing Reports”, you should click the ‘paperclip’ icon and follow the pathway indicated above, until you find the folder called “Reports”. Click once on that folder “Reports” and click OK to close the window. You should have the following:

The ManWinWin App is only available for clients that use the professional version of ManWinWin, not for ManWinWin Express users.

ManWinWin is a Windows-based application, we do not have a setup for Linux, iOS, etc.

Typically this situation happens because the installation was done with an Administrator account.

When the software is installed, a “ManWinWin Express” folder is created along the following path: “My Documents\ManWinWin Software\ManWinWin Express\”

You can copy that folder (on the Administrator account) to your own account.

After that you can click on the “paperclip” button, select the “ManWinWin.mdf” file (database file) found here: “My Documents\ManWinWin Software\ManWinWin Express\Database” and click on “Open”.

We will issue a free lifetime ManWinWin Express license after you fill in the following online form:

https://manwinwin.com/en/manwinwin-free-register-direct/

Check if you are on the “Plant mode” view. By default, all the items registered in ManWinWin are in “Plant mode” view.

You should filter the “Inactive Items”, open the datasheet of the Item that you want to put active again and deselect the “Inactive” option:

After installing ManWinWin on the new computer, you should replace the database with the one containing your information. To do this, copy the most recent backup you have and replace it in the folder

“…\Documents\ManWinWin Software\ManWinWin Express\Database”.

After performing the previous step, already inside ManWinWin, access the option Database in the personal area and click on “Open”.

You can find any WO by using the Work Orders filter and, under the Management tab, select the status and, optionally, the time period, for which you are looking for.

In ManWinWin we can distinguish 3 Maintenance Types (which are configured in the Configuration menu, option Work Orders / Work Types):

• Planned / Systematic
• Planned / Non-Systematic
• Not Planned / Not Systematic

Each Maintenance Type can be divided into Work Type (“unlimited” within each maintenance type).