The standardization of payment systems results not only in new standards but also in new documents built on these standards. The reporting system should offer its users a fast and convenient way to create such standard documents. EPC is a European Payments Council standard. It was designed to simpl...
In the new version of FastReport VCL 2022.2, we have added new functions to the report designer that will help you detect the most common errors when developing report templates as well as fix them. FastReport VCL is a report generator with a free layout of objects. This means that objects can b...
Sometimes you may need to restrict the users' ability to edit and copy reports. The key is to do it so that they would not even guess that the program uses such a wonderful product as FastReport. Let's talk about how to keep report templates hidden from prying eyes. The idea is pretty simple: to sto...
One of the key tasks of a report generator is data retrieval. Most often, databases are used to store and retrieve data. But what if it is remote cloud storage, which is used to store certain data? How to upload a company logo via http to a report to ensure that it is always up-to-date? To solve...
Beginning from the first release of FastReport VCL 6 there is an ability to set connections for Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, OneDrive through special components – “Transports”. To improve the experience of internet transports using starts from FastReport VCL 2021.3 we have rework...
First of all, FastReport VCL is a report generator. Based on this conclusion, we can assume that previewing or embedding documents of other formats into a report is excessive. But according to requests from our customers, we can see the opposite point of view. Many of our customers are solving ta...
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 ...
Recently we've released FastReport FMX 2.8 which includes support of FMXLinux framework. In this article I'd like to describe installation process and requirements based on trial version of FastReport FMX 2.8, Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.4.1, FmxLinux 1.52 from GetIT package manager and Ubuntu 20.04....
Today we had a session on CodeRage 9 about Fast Report server. The session covers how you can easily build a server application and view your reports from browser. Also that session discovers how you can build server client application for mobiles using TWebBrowser component from FireMonkey framew...
Not so long ago we have added support of Lazarus IDE for FastReport 4 VCL (starts from Pro version, because Lazarus updates recently and require source codes for recompilation). As it's still in the beta stage there is no any detailed instruction about its installation, yet. This basic article will...