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Install IFS Report Designer at customer

The IFS Report Designer is installed locally from the IFS Report Designer installation file SetupIFSReportDesigner.exe.

There is only one, backward compatible, tool. When new functionality is added to the tool, the tool should automatically update itself. If there is any trouble, just do a fresh install of the tool and the new functionality is there.

If you are a customer reading this, you need to get in contact with IFS in order to get IFS Report Designer setup. The typical scenario is that this is done in combination with training on the tool.

To setup/install the IFS Report Designer tool on a customer machine perform the following tasks:

Before arriving at the customer

  1. Download the installation file for IFS Report Designer.
    This file can be found on https://developer.ifs.com/tools/repdesigner.

At the customer

Run SetupIFSReportDesigner.exe. The default destination folder is C:\IFS\IFSReportDesigner.

Silent Installation / Uninstallation

Silent installation / uninstallation is supported from IFS Report Designer Tool Version 21.1.1.0

To Install - Run IFSReportDesigner.exe in command prompt with following parameters as required

SetupIFSReportDesigner.exe /S /showNotes=true /launch=true /shortcut=true
Parameter Description
/S Indicates that the installer should run in silent mode
/showNotes=true If true, displays release notes after a successful installation
/launch=true If true, auto launches the report designer tool after a successful installation
/shortcut=true If true, creates a desktop shortcut to launch report desginer tool
/localpath=folder path Installation directory can be mentioned as a parameter. If not provided, tool would be installed at default installation directory (C:/IFS/IFSReportDesigner)
/logfile=folder path with file name Installation Log file can be mentioned as a parameter. If not provided, log file would be created within the installation directory (C:/IFS/IFSReportDesigner/install.log)

To Uninstall - Run uninstall.exe located within the installation directory. (C:\IFS\IFSReportDesigner\uninstall.exe)

uninstall.exe /S
Parameter Description
/S Indicates that the uninstaller should run in silent mode