Welcome to the EspressReport ES Quick Start Guide. This guide is the recommended starting point for users who are new to ERES and would like to get up to speed fairly quickly. This guide can also help users to quickly evaluate the product capabilities.
This guide provides step-by-step tutorials for basic administration features, report and chart creation, publishing features, and programming examples. Only a small portion of the features are described in this guide so for more information and detail, please reference the other sections in the User's Guide.
The QuickStart assumes that you are working with ERES in default configuration. This means a clean installation using the Tomcat server that comes with ERES and running connected to the default HSQL database. For more information about installation options, please see Section 1.3.1 - Installing ERES. The information and exercises in this guide can be used in other configurations, however, references to certain options and file paths may not be applicable.
For more information about ERES components and architecture, see Section 1.1.1 - ERES Components.