Hi there, first post here despite 6 years browsing (waves).

Trying to get my own installation up and running. Have 1.7.1 running on Win 8.1 laptop and run the client through current version Firefox. System runs fine. Survived the Java update thanks to the sysadmin friend who helped handhold me through initial installation.

Have never been able to print anything. Managed to knock over the first 2 probs - Access to a printer and then successfully connecting to OpenOffice, but now I am brickwalled at access to templates. The biggest issues I can see are that my >Reporting>Reports page was totally empty, as was >Administration>Templates.

In the file folder
C:\openVPMS\openvpms-release-1.7.1\reports
I can see swags of *.jrxml files and *.odt files. So I am lost as to why the software doesn't have any of them listed anywhere. 

I have manually made a couple of templates uploading my own .ODT blank documents, but havn't had any joy getting anything to use them.

I have tried running the iReports software. First thing it wants to do is connect to a database. I haven't had any success pointing it to my OpenVPMS installation. I tried both
jdbc:mysql://localhost:8080/openvpms
and
jdbc:mysql://localhost:8080/openvpms/app/1
and gave it my openvpms account username and password but it timed out after a while saying
"SQL problems: Communications link failure"
(It fails quicker without the port number saying access denied)

I have read through much user and implementor documentation and can't find much on this at all.

Appreciate any help.