In FastReport, the Matrix object allows us to filter data. This is one of the most popular functionalities and many users like to use it. However, sometimes filtering the original data is not an option. Let's take a look at the matrix below. As you can see, these are sales statistics by employe...
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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, ...
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...
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...
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 manip...
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...
The article is relevant until version 2022.1. 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 th...
One of the most popular frameworks for creating single-page applications is Angular. It is based on MVC template, which simplifies the development and testing of such application. Many users of the report generator FastReport need to display their reports in Angular web applications, which we discus...
The Vue.js framework is currently very popular and stands in line with Angular. We have already considered how to use FastReport.Core in Angular application. Now let us consider how to implement the display of a FastReport web report in a single-page application on Vue.js with backend on ASP .NET Co...
Microsoft has recently launched a web platform called Blazor. This framework allows creating an interactive web interface with the C# language, as well as HTML and CSS. Blazor is highly demanded and rapidly gains popularity among many .NET developers. We have updated the FastReport.Web package, addi...
How to programmatically set the default email client settings for sending emails from FastReport.NET
Like many other report generators, FastReport .NET allows you to send a report via email in any of the available export formats. You can send an e-mail either in the report preview mode or in the custom application code. To send an email you need to set the sender, recipient settings. On the Accou...
ITF-14 (Interleaved Two of Five) is a two-band numeric code, otherwise known as a high-density code, which can only encode numbers in an even number. Each barcode encodes an odd number with a dark line and an even number with a space in between. To encode an odd number of digits, you must suffix ...
When you are tasked with creating a large number of reports within one corporate style, you face the problem of duplicating some information, design styles in each report. As a rule, public reports (documents) in a company have the same header with name and contact information. Let's say you have 50...
UPD: Applies to the versions of FastReport .NET before 2022.2. License packages are now available on our NuGet server. With the release of FastReport .NET 2021.1 we’re happy to announce two important things: addition of the FastReport.NET package and the support of .NET 5.0. .NET5.0 suppor...
Sometimes there is a need to use parts of one report in another. In simple cases, you can use report inheritance to do this. For example, there is a case when all reports have common elements (a company logo, signature, etc.). Then these objects can be moved to a parent report and when creating chi...
When using the FastReport.NET (Core), FastReport Open Source and FastReport Mono libraries on Linux operating system, as well as when saving documents as images or PDF files, there is a possibility to experience the incorrect display of Unicode texts in the report preview. One of the most common pr...
On the Data protection day, we decided to prepare an article about the PDF documents protection. PDF has become one of the world standards today; it’s a good idea to understand how to protect it. From what do you need to protect a PDF document? From unauthorized editing. From unauthoriz...
Speaking of text editors, we immediately present coryphaeus as Microsoft Word, which for many years has occupied a pedestal among office applications. And although its first version appeared in 1986 for the IBM platform, it gained real popularity in the nineties already among Windows users. Like all...