Usage of the Configuration Manager

The Configuration Manager is an easy to use graphical interface for managing your settings for i-net Clear Reports. All existing configurations are grouped by their scope and visibility and can be changed according to the current rights of the administrating user.

There are several ways to start the Configuration Manager:

1. Click on the entry “Configuration Manager” in the start menu “Start | Programs | i-net Clear Reports” in Microsoft Windows or “Applications | i-net Clear Reports” in Unix.
2. On Windows execute the file “ConfigurationManager.exe”.
3. Start the “ClearReports.jar” in the command line:

   java -jar core/ClearReports.jar

4. Execute the following command in the command line:

   java -cp classes;./core/ClearReports.jar com.inet.report.config.gui.swing.StartCM

5. If you do not have the file ClearReports.jar because you have installed i-net Clear Reports as Servlet in a Servlet engine like Tomcat then you can start the Configuration Manager with the following command:

   java -cp classes;lib/CCLib.jar com.inet.report.config.gui.swing.StartCM

You need to execute one of these commands in the WEB-INF directory, e.g. in ”…:webapps/<context-name>/WEB-INF”.

After starting the Configuration Manager, the following dialog will appear:

The configurations of the server process can be managed at a web based GUI, called Remote Interface.

It must be activated in the current configuration first (see Enable Remote Interface).

The web interface behaves like the graphical Configuration Manager but if the remote access is enabled it can be accessed from anywhere in a web browser using:

• "http://<server>:<port>/remote" (report server) or
• "http://<server>:<port>/<context>/remote" (report servlet).

Though you have the possibility to manage several configurations, only one of them can be used at the same time. The currently used and therefore active configuration is marked by the [active] label behind the name of the configuration.

There are five ways to get a configuration active:

1. Set the name of a configuration to “Default”.
2. Click on the “Activate” button to choose a configuration for the current session.
3. Select the wished configuration per Options of the i-net Designer.
4. Start the listener of i-net Clear Reports with the system property “config.location”.
5. Set the name of the configuration as Servlet parameter.

Properties for i-net Clear Reports can be set in newly created or existing configurations, on condition that the selected configuration is writeable. The rights for writing and reading configurations depends on the selected scope and the used user.
Opening a configuration will display a new dialog with several categories that can be administrated:

• General Options
• Performance
• Customization
• Export
• Fonts/Layout
• Logging
• Cache
• Plus Features (Cache, Scheduler)
• Other Options

The saved configuration will be stored in the selected scope and can be used from now on.

For e.g. testing purposes, the configurations can be duplicated. After clicking on the corresponding button, a new name has to be entered. To create a copy in another scope, you can also select them. The new configuration now contains all settings of the original one. This gives you the chance to edit a configuration from a scope that is not writable for you.

In order to clean the Configuration Manager from never used configurations, you can select the desired ones and click the “Delete” button. All selected configurations are removed. This operation is irreversible.

For creating backups, transporting configurations from one machine to another or to use your clearreports.properties, the Configuration Manager provides the possibility to import and export the readable configurations. More information about this can be read in Import and Export.

• Scopes
• Import and Export