Overview
QAD Enterprise Edition uses the QAD Reporting 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.
You can configure the QAD Reporting Service installation location. 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
You can only install the QAD Reporting Service 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:
• Ensure you have the correct version of Microsoft .NET Framework.
• Download and install the reporting service.
• Configure the service for your environment.
• Verify that the service is working correctly.