{"id":3528,"date":"2017-05-17T18:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=3528"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:56:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:56:40","slug":"auto-update","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/auto-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> has the ability to check for the latest release automatically. \u00a0No longer does the user need to check for the latest release on the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> website.<\/p>\n<p>Upon launch, if a newer version of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> is available for download, a message box will pop up and prompt the user to download the latest version:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3535\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/new_download.png\" alt=\"new_download\" width=\"576\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/new_download.png 576w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/new_download-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/new_download-50x32.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/new_download-320x205.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once downloaded, simply follow the instructions in the installer to complete the installation.\u00a0 All your setting are preserved and restored when the update completes and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> restarts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3536\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/finish_download.png\" alt=\"finish_download\" width=\"401\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/finish_download.png 401w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/finish_download-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/finish_download-50x18.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/finish_download-320x116.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Users can also elect to check for update manually via the Help-&gt;Check for update menu item on the menu bar of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3537\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/check_download.png\" alt=\"check_download\" width=\"159\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/check_download.png 159w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/check_download-50x38.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0 a <em>quality of life<\/em> feature that will hopefully improves the user experience of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 The typical update needs under three minutes, during this time the Caster will be off line to your end users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNIP has the ability to check for the latest release automatically. \u00a0No longer does the user need to check for the latest release on the SNIP website. Upon launch, if a newer version of SNIP is available for download, a message box will pop up and prompt the user to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[112],"ht-kb-tag":[221,330],"class_list":["post-3528","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-general","ht_kb_tag-release","ht_kb_tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6718,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3528\/revisions\/6718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}