installation & quick start

Installing Communiqué for Monsoon

The installation for Communiqué for Monsoon 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 process:

• 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 proceed 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 for Monsoon 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, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and find the program group and start Communiqué for Monsoon from there.

* The term setup.exe is a generic term used to describe our setup programs for various products we offer.  The installer names used reflect the product being downloaded and also to avoid any file over write conflicts when downloading various products from Altaireon.  For example; the standard single user setup program is named StdV2Setup.exe, the site license setup program is named SteV2Setup.exe, and the trial version is named TrialV2Setup.exe.

Upgrades: Normally, you can install upgrades/updates without having to remove previous versions of Communiqué for Monsoon.  Install the current version and be sure to overwrite the existing file when prompted to do so.  In some situations, it may be necessary to remove/uninstall Communiqué first in order to install the latest release.  On very rare occasions, customers have reported the need to delete the installation directory before being able to install the latest version of Communiqué.  If you are having difficulty installing Communiqué for Monsoon please contact us at tech support so we can help  resolve your issue so you can install Communiqué.

Connecting to your Monsoon Database

When your first launch Communiqué, a  log-in screen like the one on the right will appear.  The log-in screen is used to log-in to your monsoon database.

By default, all of the values are filled in except for the Server.  Click on the down arrow for the drop down edit box to view a list of available servers.  Pick the server where your Monsoon database reside (you will need to select the correct server name before you can continue).

The remaining values are filled in and are considered default values.  Unless those values were changed for your Monsoon installation, they should work for you.  If any of those default values are different then you will need to set them to the correct value.  You will not be able to log-in and connect to your Monsoon database if any of those values are incorrect.

Once connected, the connection data will be saved so you do not have to re-enter those values when you log-in again. 

If any of this info changes, you will need to select/re-enter whatever log-in info changed since you last connected.  For example:  The database name was  changed since the last time you logged-in.  You will need to enter the new database name in order to log-in since the old database name is no longer valid. 

If you are having difficulty connecting to your Monsoon database, please contact us at tech support so we can help you with connecting Communiqué for Monsoon.

Getting Started with Communiqué

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

Select the "Out of Stock with Sales" report from the Inventory drop down menu as displayed below.

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

Or, click the right mouse button over the report and select "Execute" from the context menu as displayed below.

The data filters for the "Out of Stock with Sales" report will be display as seen below.  Select or enter whichever 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.