ElsterFormular 16.x Forum

The help area at the bottom keeps showing the entry "lade Hilfethema ..." for ever. The entries in the help menu don't work at all.
I'm not sure if this caused by missing dependencies. Elster Formular requires Microsoft MDAC 2.8 and Microsoft JET4 SP7/SP8 Setup (according to the Elster Formular download page). On native Windows the installation stops if these requirements are not fullfilled. Under Crossover the installation in a fresh bottle succeeeded w/o these additional components. Since at least one of them requires the IE 6, which in turn requires a valid Windows license I did not install them. I'd rather spend my money on Crossover 😊
If somebody could install them and confirm if this issue is caused by the additional components I'd love to hear from.

Thomas

Elster Formular 2007/2008 (Version 9.1.0.0) shows a error msg box right at startup that the help file 'Elfo2007.chm' can not be opened. But the file is available in the Elster Formular install directory. The help area at the bottom continues to show "lade Hilfethema ...". This is very annoying, because this box pops up again and again (would assume each time when the help text would change).

ElsterFormular 2011 (version 13.1.1) with Crossover 11.0 does show the help correctly without installing additional packages.