Installing Actuate e.Report Designer Professional

Installing Actuate e.Report Designer Professional

Make sure the user account you use to install e.Report Designer Professional is a member of the Administrators group. On a new Windows Vista installation, the initial user account is, by default, not a member of the Administrators group. Configure the user account to be a member of this group.

How to install e.Report Designer Professional

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Double-click ActuateeReportDesignerProfessional.exe. InstallShield Wizard extracts the files necessary to install e.Report Designer Professional on your computer. After a few moments, Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for Actuate e.Report Designer Professional appears, as shown in Figure 1-1. Choose Next.

Figure 1-1  Starting the InstallShield Wizard for Actuate e.Report Designer Professional
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Figure 1-2  Accepting the license agreement
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In Setup Type, select Typical. If you are installing e.Report Designer Professional on a Windows XP Professional, a Windows Server 2003, or a Windows Vista system, the default program location, C:\Program Files\Actuate11\eRDPro, appears as shown in Figure 1-3. If you are installing e.Report Designer Professional on a Windows 7 Professional system, the default program location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Actuate11\eRDPro.
Choose Next.

Figure 1-3  Selecting the Typical setup type
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In Locale Information, select a locale. The illustrations in this manual use the English (United States) locale, as shown in Figure 1-4. The computer’s operating system language and regional settings must be compatible with the default locale settings you configure during installation. Choose Next.

Figure 1-4  Selecting the US English locale
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Figure 1-5  Verifying program components before copying files
Setup Status displays messages about the progress of the installation. First, the wizard installs Actuate Information Object Designer, as shown in Figure 1-6.

Figure 1-6  Monitoring the installation of Information Object Designer
Then, the wizard installs Actuate e.Report Designer Professional, as shown in Figure 1-7.

Figure 1-7  Monitoring the installation of e.Report Designer Professional
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To complete the installation wizard, select No, I will restart my computer later, as shown in Figure 1-8. Then, choose Finish.

Figure 1-8  Selecting to reboot later and finish the e.Report Designer Professional installation wizard
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If a reboot is not required, clear I would like to view the ReadMe file, as shown in Figure 1-9. Then, choose Finish to exit the installation wizard.

Figure 1-9  Selecting not to view the ReadMe file
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In the message that reminds you to install Actuate Online Documentation and Localization Resource Files, similar to the one in Figure 1-10, choose OK.

Figure 1-10  Localization and Online Documentation reminder message

 


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