Progress
Report Builder
Deployment Guide
Before You Get Started
Before you start Progress Report Engine, review the following checklist:
- To have access to all the fonts and formatting specified in the report definitions that you intend to use, verify that you have an MS-Windows printer driver installed. (The physical printer does not have to be installed if you are only previewing reports on the screen or printing them to files). If you do not have a printer driver installed, Report Engine will not have access to the font information that it requires to generate reports.
- Report Engine must be installed on the machine where you are running it.
- The report libraries containing the reports you have designed using Report Builder must be on the machine where you are running Report Engine.
- The databases you designed your reports for must be accessible by Report Engine.
- If your reports use any user-defined functions, the
PRORB.UDF
file in which the UDF definitions are stored must be on the machine where you are running Report Engine.- Any memo files attached to your reports must be on the machine where you are running Report Engine.
If you are using the table interface, you must also:
- Create a table in which to place the report parameters, in a new or existing database. This table is the Report Engine table and the database that contains it is the Report Engine database. The table must have fields for each of the eighteen required parameters. See "Report Engine Table Interface," for more information about creating this database. Progress supplies a data definition file that contains a sample table. The Report Engine record must be created in an actual database; it cannot be created in a temporary table or a work file.
- Connect the application running Report Engine to the above database.
- Create one or more records containing values for the report parameters.
Once you have performed these tasks, you can invoke Report Engine from the 4GL or create an icon that invokes Report Engine using the Report Engine table.
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