Install Custom Reports in EMS Desktop Client

If your organization has a custom-developed report to deploy, there are two methods:

  • EMS Desktop Client Web Deploy

  • EMS Desktop Client Install.

If you use an EMS Custom Report with v44.1 and later, contact EMS Support or your consultant to get a new DLL file.

This change also applies to the Glance DLL, TMS, Polycom, and Custom Badges.

  1. Obtain your organization's Custom Report DLL and SQL Overlay script from EMS support.

  2. To apply the Custom Report code, run the SQL script against your EMS Database.

  3. Depending on how your organization deploys the EMS Desktop Client, follow the applicable instructions so that users can access the EMS Custom Report from within the EMS Desktop Client.

Install in EMS Desktop Client Web Deploy

  1. Place the DLL file on the webserver.

  2. Locate the EMS Desktop Client Web Deployment location on the Web Server. Typically, this is C:\inetpub\wwwroot\EmsDesktopWebDeploy\.

  3. Open the Installer folder and locate the EMS.zip file.

  4. Unzip the EMS.zip file to a location on the PC.

  5. Place the Custom Report DLL in the EMS folder.

  6. Zip the new EMS folder containing the Custom Report DLL and name the zip file EMS.

  7. Place the new EMS.zip file back in the Installer folder.

Install in EMS Desktop Client on a User Machine

  1. Place the DLL on the user's machine.

  2. Locate the local install of the EMS Desktop Client. Typically,this is: C:\Program Files (x86)\EMS\.

  3. Place the Custom Report DLL in the EMS folder.

  4. Start the EMS Desktop Client.

 

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