Administrator's Installation and Setup Guide - Jet Reports – Support Topics

Welcome to the Jet Reports Administrator's Guide

Administrator Setup	Administrator Configuration	User Configuration	Uploading Reports	Publishing Dashboards

Thank you for joining the Jet family of business users.

Here you'll find all the steps you'll need to download, install, activate, and configure Jet Reports.

This article is intended for use by system administrators. Standard Users should refer to our User Installation Guide.

Our Getting Started with Jet Reports article includes links to this and other articles to help you use Jet Reports

Installing Jet Reports

The installation program can be found here, Download Software
Find the downloaded file...

and go to the location where the file is saved...
Right-click on the file and extract its contents...

This will result in a folder with the same name as the zip file. Double-click to move into that folder.
Under the folder 1 - Jet Reports - REQUIRED, run the Jet Setup.exe file.

Only one version of the Jet Excel add-in can be installed at a time. This makes upgrading your installation quite easy. By installing a newer version of the Jet Excel add-in, it replaces the older version.

When upgrading between different versions, it is recommended to completely uninstall Jet before installing the version.

Need help in choosing which components to install?

Using the Jet Service Tier

Jet Reports includes an online report management system - Jet Hub. Use of Jet Hub requires the installation and use of the Jet Service Tier for storing and accessing data source and user information.
Please review the Jet Hub Pre-Installation Checklist and then see our article What is the Jet Service Tier for more information.

Adding an SSL Certificate

Use of Jet Hub requires the use of an SSL/TLS certificate.
Instructions for requesting and installing a certificate is available in the article Using an SSL Certificate with Jet Hub.

Activating your Jet License

Setting up your Jet Reports Data Sources

The Jet Excel add-in has built-in support for data source connections to Dynamics NAV, Dynamics GP, Jet Analytics Cubes, and Jet Analytics Data Warehouses. In addition, you can define "Universal" data source connections to MSSQL databases as well as most databases that provide an OLE (preferred) or ODBC connector:

Dynamics NAV
- Setting up a Dynamics NAV data Source
- Configuring NAV Web Services(video)
Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Create A Dynamics 365 Business Central Data Source
GP
- Setting up a data source to Dynamics GP
Other
- Setting up a "Universal" SQL data source
- Setting up a data source to a Jet Analytics data warehouse
Exporting and Importing Data Sources
- Already have settings that you want to move from one computer to another?
- Want to set up centralized data source settings for everyone to use?(video)

Jet Scheduler Configuration

Please note: for our customers using Dynamics NAV 2013, we recommend the following NAV hotfixes:

KB	Build Number	Description
2815432	7.0.34298	Date period filter does not work as expected in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
2831582	7.0.34550	You experience slow performance when you open a page that uses flowfields in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013

Upgrading with Nav and Business Central Business Objects

Do you use NAV or Business Cenral Web Services and are upgrading your version of Jet? If so, you may need to upgrade the Jet business objects on the Microsoft Dynamics Server

Installing the Jet Configuration Service and Upgrading from Centralized Settings

These instructions are for those customers who are upgrading from older versions of Jet Essentials

Need the latest release or an older version? All available versions of Jet can be found here: Jet Downloads

Updated May 24, 2021 19:05: insightsoftware support