Documentation

How Quikap and QuikapStudio work

Written for the person doing the work: what each thing does, what it does not do, and where the edges are.

Start

Getting started

What you need, how a release is installed and activated, and where to go next. Written ahead of the first release, so that it is ready when the release is.

Verify a download

How to check that an installer is the one that was released, before you run it.

Licenses and seats

What a license key is, what a seat is, how an installation is activated, and what happens when a license ends. One license covers Quikap and QuikapStudio.

Updates

How each program finds a new release of itself, how it decides to trust it, and what it does when you agree to install it.

Products

What Quikap and QuikapStudio are

Two programs, one family. What each one does, why they are separate, how they talk to each other, and what stays on your computer.

Capture artifacts

What Quikap writes to disk for each capture, how QuikapStudio reads it, and how the format is versioned so that old and new versions of the two programs keep working together.

Status

What exists today, what is being built, and what has not been started, said plainly and kept current.

Security

Signing in

How people at Exprezoe sign in to Quikap and QuikapStudio with Exprezoe Identity in place of a license key, what the programs keep afterwards, and how to sign out.

Reference

Troubleshooting

What the programs and this site say when something does not work, what it means, and what to do.

The update and license API

The endpoints Quikap and QuikapStudio themselves talk to, for people who run a mirror, automate a deployment or want to know exactly what is sent.