Reporting4Act! is licensed on a per-user basis. That means each user who wants to create and/or run reports requires a license. Here's how licensing works:

  • Until Reporting4Act! has been activated, it runs in "unactivated" mode. You are asked each time you run Reporting4Act! if you want to activate it. If you choose to do so, the License Manager appears. Click the Add button to add a license. The registration number that appears is based on several factors, one of which is information about the system where Reporting4Act! is installed (not necessarily the workstation it's running on, but the system where the program resides). Enter the serial number you were given when you purchased Reporting4Act! and click Online to activate it. The activation code that appears is also based on several factors, including the registration number, serial number, and number of licenses purchased. Licensing information is stored in a file named SFQuery.lic in the Data subdirectory of the program folder.

  • Users in the Administrators user group (such as the ADMIN user) are the only ones who have access to the Maintain Users and Groups dialog in Reporting4Act!. In that dialog, an administrative user can only define as many user names as there are licenses. They can also specify which users use which licenses if more than one type of license is installed. For example, if there are two Ultimate and five Basic licenses, they can define up to two Ultimate users and five Basic users.

  • When you log in, Reporting4Act! does two checks. The first is how many users are currently running Reporting4Act!. If all licenses are currently in use (for example, five users are currently in Reporting4Act! and there are five licenses in total), you are informed of this and Reporting4Act! terminates. The second check is whether another user is logged in with the same user name. If so, you are informed of this and Reporting4Act! terminates. So, Reporting4Act! licensing is a combination of named users (you can only define as many user names as there are licenses) and concurrent use (only as many users as there are licenses can be logged in at the same time).

The License Manager in the Tools menu, which is only available for users in the Administrators user group, can be used to add or remove Reporting4Act! licenses or see the currently installed licenses.

License types

There are four types of licenses:

  • Basic: this is partially a replacement for the Report Viewer license in earlier versions (users with existing Report Viewer licenses still have Report Viewer licenses). Basic users cannot create or edit reports and have certain other limitations.

  • Pro: Pro users can create and edit some report types and can create formulas.

  • Premium: Premium users can create and edit more report types than Pro and also have access to the Advanced Report Designer and Template Editor.

  • Ultimate: this is a replacement for the Report Designer license in earlier versions (existing Report Designer licenses now appear as "Ultimate"). Ultimate users have full functionality.

The following table shows the features available to each type of license:

FeatureBasicProPremiumUltimate
Run any type of reportXXXX
Import reports created by othersXXXX
Prompt for filter values ("ask at runtime")XXXX
Output reports to file (PDF, Excel, etc.)XXXX
Email reportsXXXX
Includes 100+ built-in reportsXXXX
Report on Act! custom tablesXXXX
Supports all Act! versions since 2010XXXX
Create/edit row and column ("quick") reports XXX
Create/edit cross-tabulation reports XXX
Create/edit labels XXX
Create/edit batch reports XXX
Create formulas XXX
Report on TopLine data XXX
Create/edit charts  XX
Add charts to quick and cross-tab reports  XX
Edit report layout ("Advanced Report Designer")  XX
Create/edit templates  XX
Supports Act! versions prior to 2010  XX
Report on QuoteWerks data  XX
Create/edit gauges   X
Create/edit dashboards   X
Support multiple databases   X
Schedule reports   X
Usage reporting   X
Report on Durkin Toolkit data   X
Report on Swiftpage history data   X
Number of free support tickets per year02410