Category: Jet Global

This post is part of a series of posts on implementing Jet Reports and is part of the Jet Professional sub-series.

With Jet Professional installed and users added as viewers, Jet Professional can be used for reporting, as I showed in the post on the sample reports. However, no reports can be designed until the organisation has assigned designer licences in the Jet Reports Licensing Portal.

When your organisation signed up with Jet Reports, one user will have been created as a an administrator who has access to the licensing portal; this user can create additional administrators for this organisation as well as creating designers.

To create a designer, navigate to the Jet Reports Licensing Portal‘> and log in using the email address/Microsoft ID of an administrator account.

When you log in, you’ll be presented with the License List:

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This post is part of a series of posts on implementing Jet Reports and is part of the Jet Professional sub-series.

Jet Reports have made a number of sample reports for Microsoft Dynamics GP available for download. Navigate to the page, and click on the Microsoft Dynamics GP Report Templates image:

On the next page, enter your details and click the Access Resource button.

The download contains sample reports for both Jet Professional and Jet Enterprise; only the former are usable with Jet Professional.

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This post is part of a series of posts on implementing Jet Reports and is part of the Jet Professional sub-series.

With the Jet Professional server components installed and configured, the next step is to install the Jet Professional client component.

Start the setup utility and enter the Activation Code received from Jet Reports when your order was processed. Click Next to proceed:

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This post is part of a series of posts on implementing Jet Reports and is part of the Jet Professional sub-series.

In the last post, I stepped through the installation of the Jet Reports server components; once this has been completed, the next step is to configure the Jet Service Tier via the Jet Administration Console which is accessible via the Windows Start menu in the Jet Reports folder.

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This post is part of a series of posts on implementing Jet Reports and is part of the Jet Professional sub-series.

While Jet Express is a client only installation, there is an optional server component which can be installed for Jet professional; this is the Service Tier which allows for the sharing of Microsoft Dynamics GP connections. For this series, I am going to be installing the Service Tier.

Before installing Jet Professional, you need to purchase a licence through your Microsoft Dynamics GP partner.

To install Jet Professional, download the software from Jet Reports:

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This post is part of a series of posts on implementing Jet Reports and is part of the Jet Professional sub-series.

Over the last couple of posts, I’ve been taking a look at Jet Express, which is the lowest tier of Jet Reports. The next tier, is Jet Professional, formerly known as Jet Essentials, which is a much more flexible and capable reporting tool.

Before installing Jet Professional, there are some prerequisites for both the server and client components:

• Database Connection
  • Microsoft Dynamics GP version 9 or later
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or later**
  • OLE or ODBC compliant database
• Excel Addin
  • Prerequisites
    • Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5, including ‘ADOMD.NET for SQL Server 2005’ (which can be downloaded from Microsoft)
  • Hardware (minimum)
    • Processor: 1.4GH
    • RAM: 2GB
    • Disk space: 2GB
  • Operating System
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2016
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
    • Microsoft Windows 10
    • Microsoft Windows 8.0 and 8.1
    • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Vista SP2
  • Microsoft Office
    • Microsoft Office 365 (2013-2016 Desktop Edition Only)**
    • Microsoft Office 2010 – 2016 *
    • Microsoft Office 2007
• * Jet Reports recommends that only one installation of MS Office be present. Jet Reports cannot support installations where multiple copies of MS Office are installed.
  ** Includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, if applicable.

This post is part of a series of posts on Jet Reports. As I said in the series index for the overall series on Implementing jet Reports, I am doing sub-series for each of the versions of Jet Reports.

This is the series index for implementing Jet Professional which is the middle tier of the software and suitable for businesses with more complex financial and non-financial reporting requirements.

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