In version 2021.1 we added the ListDataSet component which allows loading data to cube using Windows Forms Data Binding It is now possible to load data to Cube using Windows Forms complex Data Binding which is used in standard controls: DataGridView, ListView, and Combobox. Complex Data Binding lo...

Occasionally, our users face the task of making an interactive report. It may be a report where the order of data sorting can be changed after querying. Today, we will consider the process of creating such a report. Let us assume that we have a ready file with configured sorting. As an example, we ...

With a great variety of document formats, often can be a situation when the customer wants to use some kind of document formats they already have and don't waste time on creating the same layout in the report. For those cases, FastReport VCL provides the ability to use RichText or HTML tags in ...

Did you know that different countries have different date formats? When you make a multilingual report, or a report for a country where they speak Persian (Farsi), it is important to bring up dates in the correct format. By default, FastReport uses the European date format, but the .NET tools allow ...

The FastReport .NET report generator offers broad opportunities for customization, that is, configuring for your own needs. From the user application code, you may create your own components of the report generator, using the FastReport libraries. Thus, you may create your own report designer and it...

Today, such analytical tools as OLAP cubes are extremely demanded. Fast Report possesses such a system and allows displaying data cubes with slices in .NET applications, for example in NET 5.0. Now we will discuss how to use it in your reports. To use the FastCube.Core libraries, one has to prelimi...

1. About FastCube Report generator FastReport .NET covers nearly all requirements of users in report making. Nearly all, but still not absolutely all! When it comes to cross tables, it becomes “tight”. The Matrix object is intended only for the output of cross data, but not for manipula...

This is the final article of the courses of Akademik educational program. In the previous publications, we considered building reports with dialog boxes and connecting a report to the Fast Report data. The Map Object is used to display two-dimensional graphic maps in ESRI shapefile (.shp), Open Str...

In our previous articles within the “Akademik” educational program, we have learned to install FastReport in Lazarus, mastered working with diagrams, charts, and bar codes, and connected a report to the data. Now we shall consider dialog forms. Often, one needs to set certain parameters...

FastReport .NET has a great tool for displaying data as an integrated table or matrix. Many of us would like to improve the functionality of matrices, for example, with such a useful option as a choice of N top values. It seems as simple as selecting the N top lines from a data source. However, besi...