The reporting front end was implemented as a two-tier COM-based object to run as part of Quest and based on Crystal Report (5.0) reporting engine. The reporting front end allows users to create reports based on existing Crystal Report templates, to schedule reports to be printed in batch mode, and to automatically print reports based on their due date (without users interaction). The COM object was created using Visual Basic 5.0. The database access was provided using RDO and Microsoft SQL Server 6.5.