Report Maker
Installation Manual
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Prerequisites
SimaPro 7.3.3 or higher
A SimaPro license that includes Report Maker
Microsoft Office 2007 and MS Office 2010 (latest service pack)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (automatically installed if not present)
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime (automatically installed if not present)
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Additional information:
Report Maker is an add-on for SimaPro. It will work for all SimaPro licenses, Single User, Multi-User but not for the SimaPro Demo
1.1.1 Technical Requirements
Report Maker works on all computers SimaPro can run on. The system requirements for SimaPro can be found here: http://www.pre-sustainability.com/content/system-requirements
SimaPro and Report Maker need to be installed on the same machine. The database can be located anywhere as long as SimaPro can open it.
1.1.2 License / test
You can try Report Maker and make full use of the program for 30 days, starting from the day you first install Report Maker. To keep using Report Maker after 30 days, you need to purchase a Report Maker license. For pricing and purchasing see: www.pre-sustainability.com/content/report-maker.
1.1.3 Microsoft Office
Report Maker is a program to export and maintain charts and tables in Microsoft Office programs so a recent version of MS Office should be installed before Report Maker can be installed.
Currently supported Office versions are MS Office 2007 and MS Office 2010 including ribbon bar. Only Microsoft Office is supported by Report Maker. Other office applications like OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice and StarOffice are not supported.
1.1.4 Automatically installed software
Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Report Maker is a .Net4 application (a reboot is needed).
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime for adding an extra ribbon bar to Word and Excel The installer of Report Maker will download these general Microsoft Windows modules during the installation process, if they are not yet present on your computer. If this is not possible or allowed, you should download and install these modules manually before you run the Report Maker setup.
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Install SimaPro 7.3.3 or higher
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New installation of SimaPro
Download the installation files from: http://www.pre-sustainability.com/content/sima-pro-installation-registered-users and follow the instructions in the SimaPro installation manual. Please make sure you purchased a SimaPro license including Report Maker
2.1.1 SimaPro Demo version
You can test Report Maker in the SimaPro Demo Version as well. Download SimaPro Demo from http://www.pre-sustainability.com/content/simapro-demo and install it according to the instructions
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Update of SimaPro
Update to SimaPro 7.3.3 or Higher. Check http://www.pre-sustainability.com/versioncheck/ for the latest version of SimaPro and update the Software and the Database according to the instructions you find there.
2.2.1 Try Report Maker / Enter registration code including Report Maker
If you want to try Report Maker for 30 days you can skip this part. If you decide to buy a license at a later time, you can do this step later.
Register SimaPro with the registration code you received when you purchased Report Maker. There are two ways to enter the new registration code:
during the installation process
via Help > Register in SimaPro
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Installation process of Report Maker
1. Close all MS Office programs.
2. Download and install the SimaPro Report Maker-installer file from www.pre-sustainability.com/content/report-maker.
3. If .Net 4 installed is not installed on your computer, you get a message about “Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64)”. Accept this to install the .Net 4 platform.
(For Windows Server 2003 (32 bit) you need to do this manually see the troubleshooting section).
4. Accept the license agreement of Report Maker.
5. If not already present, the installer will ask if “Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime” should be installed. If you don’t do this, the Report Maker installer will rollback the installation.
After this installation procedure you should have:
An extra SimaPro ribbon bar menu in both Word and Excel (version 2007 & 2010)
Extra menu-options in SimaPro to export linked content (named item descriptors) You can learn how to use Report Maker in the Report Maker user manual.
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Backups
Report Maker itself does not store any information. All information you enter is stored in SimaPro, and the MS Word and MS Excel documents which are updated. So please make regular backups of your SimaPro database and your documents.
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Troubleshooting
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No Service Pack 3 for MS Office 2007
To run Report Maker, Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 needs to be installed. You can get this via
www.update.microsoft.com or http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27838
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Office 2007 Ribbon bar for other Windows users
In Office 2007 the extra Report Maker ribbon bar will only appear when you log in (in Windows) with the same user as the one that did the installation.
There are some workarounds for this problem:
Run the Report Maker installer, and choose the repair action
Double-click the "Report Maker Excel 2007 In.vsto" and "Report Maker Word 2007 Add-In.vsto" files in the “C:\Program Files\SimaPro Report Maker” directory when you are logged in as a different user
Install hotfix package 976477: should be done before installing Report Maker (can be obtained from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976477)
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Slow on computers with little memory
Please close all other applications (also SimaPro) when you update a MS Word or MS Excel document on slower computers.
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COM precautions with multiple SimaPro versions
Because a COM-interface can be registered only once on a computer, there might be a conflict between multiple suppliers of that COM-interface. In practice it means that the last SimaPro that is installed will replace the COM-registration. You can influence this in SimaPro by doing an explicit unregister + register action from within the SimaPro version that you want to handle all COM-functionality (Help > (un)register COM server).
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Manually install .NET Framework 4 for Windows Server 2003 (32bit)
When installing Report Maker on Windows Server 2003 (32bit) you first need to install the .NET Framework 4 manually:
Download the .Net 4 installer from:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17851
Run it; it will prompt you to download Windows Imaging Component (WIC) first
Run WIC installer
Finish .Net4 installer
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Updates
PRé Consultants will regularly make SimaPro software and database updates available to users with a valid service contract. If you do not have a valid service contract please contact PRé Consultants or your local partner to renew your service contract.
Updates can be downloaded from http://www.pre-sustainability.com/versioncheck/
To inform you of the availability of new updates, it is important that we have your correct contact details, most importantly your e-mail address. Please notify us of any changes in your contact details, or if the main contact person for SimaPro changes.
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Support
For technical support, please use the “Contact SimaPro helpdesk” feature under Help in the SimaPro menu. This will generate an email with technical information about your license, which helps the helpdesk to answer your question more quickly.
You can contact the SimaPro helpdesk via:
In SimaPro: Help > Contact SimaPro helpdesk (recommended)
Web site : http://www.pre-sustainability.com/contact/support
Phone: +31 33 4504010
E-mail: [email protected]
You can also contact our local partner; http://www.pre-sustainability.com/partners.
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Title : Report Maker installation manual Report version: 1.0
Date: February 2012
Written by: PRé Consultants bv
Taco Wannee, Sipke Durksz, Anneke Haringsma Copyright: © 2012 PRé Consultants. All rights reserved.