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Running PETRA

 

PETRA software is available on all the PCs in the Computer Lab. To use PETRA

 

 

  1. Login to a Windows Workstation in the computer Lab
  2. Make a folder called “petra” on your Z:\, You do this by opening “My Computer” and double clicking the Z:\ and creating a folder there. This is where you will store all your PETRA related projects.
  3. Then Open up an explorer window and in the address section key in \\garnet.geosc.uh.edu\petrasrv, and right click the file which says “geoplus1 PETRA HIS Inc.” and say create shortcut. You will be prompted that the shortcut cannot be created in that folder but only on the desktop, say “yes”. The display below demonstrates this process.

 

 

 

  1. Once that is done you will see an Icon on your desktop which says “Shortcut to geoplus1”, before you double click this to launch it, you may want to copy the example projects to your Z:\Petra folder. You can do this by going to the window where you have the “\\garnet.geosc.uh.edu\petrasrv” open and copy the file “Tutorial.zip” from the Projects folder to your Z:\Petra folder. Like so,

 

 

  1. Then double click this file to expand it into the Z:\petra folder, you will end up with a “Tutorial” folder.
  2. After this you can launch PETRA by double clicking the icon on your desktop. You will get the following screen

 

  1. Select “Connect to an existing Shared Project” and navigate to Z:\Petra\Tutorial folder and click “Next”
  2. This step is important : When PETRA asks you to “Personal Parameters Folder”, make sure you select the “Z:\Petra\Tutorial\Params” folder, like so.

 

 

 

  1. Once this is done your final screen should like below, and then click finish. Petra will launch with the Tutorial project. Make sure you create all your projects in the Z:\petra folder ONLY.