installation & quick start

Installing Communiqué

The installation for Communiqué is quite simple and straight forward.  You can press the Cancel button anytime to abort installing Communiqué on your computer.  The following steps will guide you through the installation:

• Download the installation file setup.exe* from our website.

• Navigate to the folder where you saved the downloaded setup.exe* file and run it.

• When the setup program is displayed you may begin installing Communiqué.

• While at the welcome screen, click the Next button to process with the installation

• While at the license agreement screen, read the license agreement.  Accept the license and then press the Next button, or decline the license agreement and press the Cancel button.

• While at the Start Menu Folder, you can accept the default menu folder name, or change it to whatever you like.  When you are done, press the Next button to continue with the installation.

• When you arrive at the Select Additional Tasks screen, you can choose to have a desktop icon/short cut placed on your desktop for easy access to Communiqué.  You can also choose to create a Quick Launch icon for the Quick Launch toolbar.

• The Ready to Install screen displays the previous choices you've made.  Click on the install button to install Communiqué.

• When the installation is complete a finish button will be displayed.  Click on the finish button to finish installing Communiqué.

Now that you have finished installing Communiqué on your computer, it is ready for you to run.  If you choose to have a desktop icon placed on your desktop, or a quick start icon placed on your quick start toolbar then you can click on either one to start Communiqué.  If you did not choose those options then you will need to go to the start menu button for Windows XP or Windows Vista and find the program group and start Communiqué from there.

* The term setup.exe is now a generic term used to describe our setup programs for various products.  We recently changed the naming convention to better reflect the product being downloaded an to avoid file over write conflicts.  For example; the standard trial setup program is now StdTrialSetup.exe and the enterprise trial is now EntTrialSetup.exe.  These new naming conventions are now in effect.

Locating the SEOM database for your Store

Standard Edition

Communiqué will locate the SEOM database for your store in the following manner:

1. Communiqué will first look for the StdSettings.cfg found in your user profile communiqué directory locate in documents and settings.

2. If a SEOM database four your store is defined in the StdSettings.cfg file then Communiqué will open this database, and be ready run with the data contained in this database.

3. If there is no SEOM database for your store defined in the StdSettings.cfg file then Communiqué will look in the default Stone Edge directory and look at the last store opened when you last closed Order Manager.

4. If the Stone Edge directory can not be found or the last store opened in Order Manager can not be determined then Communiqué will continue to load.  When Communiqué has finished loading you will notice all of the buttons on the ribbon bar are disabled except for the "Select Store" button.  You may use this button to help locate an SEOM database for your store.

5. Once you have connected into your store, Communiqué is ready to begin reporting about your store and it's business.

Enterprise Edition

Communiqué will locate the SEOM database for your store in the following manner:

1. Communiqué will first look for the EntSettings.cfg found in your user profile communiqué directory locate in documents and settings.

2. If a SEOM enterprise database four your store is defined in the EntSettings.cfg file then Communiqué will open this database, and be ready run with the data contained in this database.

3. If there is no SEOM database for your store defined in the EntSettings.cfg file then Communiqué will look in the default Stone Edge directory and look for a file named SEOrdManEnt2000, SEOrdManEnt2001, SEOrdManEnt2003, etc.

4. If the Stone Edge directory can not be found or the Order Manager enterprise file can not be determined then Communiqué will continue to load.  When Communiqué has finished loading, you will notice all of the buttons on the ribbon bar are disabled except for the "Select Store" button.  You may use this button to help locate the enterprise SEOM database for your store.

5. Once you have connected into your store, Communiqué is ready to begin reporting about your store and it's business.

Getting Started with Communiqué

Select a report from the Customer's drop down menu located on the ribbon bar as displayed below.

Select the "High Dollar Buyers" report from the Customer's drop down menu as displayed below.

Select a the "Execute Report" button from the ribbon bar as displayed below.

The data filters for the "High Dollar Buyer's" Report will be display as seen below.  Select or enter whatever filters you like, or keep the default values.  Press the Apply button to execute the report.

In addition to the data filters, you can use the filter bar to further refine your data.  Sometimes the shear volume of data, and the number of pages you must print require breaking a report into smaller more manageable parts.  The filter bar is an ideal way to make large print jobs more manageable.

Congratulations, you have executed your first report.  That is all there is to running reports in Communiqué. If you did not get any results then you may want to go back and adjust your data filters by selecting the "Execute Report" button.  Change the appropriate data filters and press the Apply button.