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Installing Actuate e.Report Designer Professional


Actuate e.Report Designer Professional offers developers of structured content for the Windows platform the added capability of designing, building, and distributing report object designs and components throughout the enterprise.

You can install Actuate e.Report Designer Professional on any client machine.

NOTE:  Installation of Actuate e.Report Designer Professional is not required to run the Siebel Reports Server.

To install Actuate e.Report Designer Professional

  1. Insert the Web Client Ancillary Programs CD 1 of 2 into your CD-ROM drive of your chosen computer.
  2. Navigate to the following directory:
  3. Thirdpty\actuate\language\erdpro

    Where:

    language = the Siebel code for the Language Pack you installed; for example, enu for U.S. English.

  4. Double-click Setup.exe.
  5. For the remaining installation steps, refer to Installing e.Report Designer Professional release 6 on the Siebel eBusiness Third-Party Bookshelf under Actuate.

Postinstallation Task for Actuate e.Report Designer Professional

After Actuate e.Report Designer Professional is installed, the setting for Internal Basic source encoding must be set to Unicode (UCS-2LE). To make sure that Internal Basic source encoding is set properly, perform the following task.

To make sure Internal Basic source encoding is set properly

  1. From the Start menu, open Actuate e.Report Designer Professional.
  2. From the menu, choose View > Options and click the General tab.
  3. In the Internal Basic source encoding section, make sure that Unicode (UCS-2LE) is selected.

 Siebel Reports Administration Guide, Version 7.5, Rev B 
 Published: 18 April 2003