Set Up the Reporting Service
This section contains information to help you install, configure, and troubleshoot the QAD Reporting Service. QAD Enterprise Edition uses this service to distribute financial reports to application users. The QAD Reporting Service is installed on a Windows machine.
If your users want to submit batch jobs to generate Financials reports, you must install and configure the QAD Reporting Service. This service invokes a Crystal Reports generator.
The QAD Reporting Service installation location is configurable. The default location is Program Files or Program Files (x86), depending on your Windows machine’s operating system.
The server reporting service must run on a Windows Server machine. The service connects to the Financials AppServer (qadfin<environment_name>) by obtaining the AppServer URL from the configuration for the environment held under QAD Home. After connecting to the AppServer, the AppServer spawns a reporting service daemon that connects back to the Windows Reporting Service using the configuration in the following configuration file:
c:\Program Files\QAD\QAD.CBFReportingService\
QAD.CBFReportingService.exe.config
The QAD Reporting Service can only be installed once. By default, it creates one Windows service to run the QAD Reporting Service. For information on how to configure multiple Reporting Service instances, refer to
QAD Reporting Service Scripts.
The required setup steps are:
• Determine if Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.0 is installed.
• Download and install the reporting service.
• Configure it for your environment.
• Verify that the service is working correctly.