Editing Remote Locations

You can use the Remote Locations dialog box to add any browsers and mobile devices on a remote location to the set of applications that you can test.

Click Silk4NET > Edit Remote Locations. The Remote Locations dialog box appears.
To add an additional remote location, perform the following actions:
1. Click on the arrow to the right of Add Location to specify whether you want to add a remote location which is using the Silk Test Information Service, or Silk Central.
  Note: You can only configure one Silk Central as a remote location. If you have already configured the integration with Silk Central, Silk Central is listed in the remote locations list.
2. Click Add Location. The Add Location dialog box appears.
3. Type the URL of the remote location and the port through which Silk4NET connects to the information service on the remote machine into the Host field. The default port is 22901.
4. Optional: Edit the name of the remote location in the Name field.
To edit an existing remote location, click Edit.
To remove a remote location, click Remove.
Optional: To reduce the amount of browsers and devices in the Select Application dialog, click Do not show devices and browsers from this location. The installed browsers and connected devices of the remote location will no longer be displayed in the Select Application dialog. By default, all installed browsers and connected devices of all remote locations are displayed in the Select Application dialog.
By default, remote locations are saved to %APPDATA%\Silk\SilkTest\conf\remoteLocations.xml. To change the file in which the remote locations are saved, for example to share the file with other team members, perform the following actions:
1. Click Sharing Options. The Sharing Options dialog box appears.
2. Click Save to shared file.
3. Click Browse to select the file.
You could also set the full path to the remote locations in a file named remoteLocationsFileLocation.properties, for example if you want to use a file that is located in a repository. For example, to use the remote locations that are specified in the file remoteLocations.xml, under C:\mySources, create a file with the name remoteLocationsFileLocation.properties in the folder %APPDATA%\Silk\SilkTest\conf\ and type fileLocation=C\:\\mySources\\remoteLocations.xml into the file.
To load a set of already configured remote locations from a shared file, for example to use remote locations that have been specified by another team member, perform the following actions:
1. Click Sharing Options. The Sharing Options dialog box appears.
2. Click Load from shared file.
3. Click Browse to select the file.
Click OK.

When you have added a remote location, the browsers that are installed on the remote location, including Apple Safari on a Mac, are available in the Web tab of the Select Application dialog box, and the mobile devices that are connected to the remote location are available in the Mobile tab of the Select Application dialog box.